From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) Date: 2005-08-30T13:41:23+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] The MouseHole Proxy 1.0 -- a Greasemonkey alternative In article <43139857.30803@whytheluckystiff.net>, why the lucky stiff wrote: >And now I ask these gaunt faces, "Is anyone in the mood for fledling >software, a few hours old?" > >[*] the MouseHole proxy [*] 1.0 [*] with complimentary hoodwink.d free >pass [*] > >= Background = >Lately, on RedHanded, we've been trying out an experiment with a >Greasemonkey script and a Ruby script. What we're doing is cladestine >off-web experimentation and it is of the utmost importance that we >remain concealed and uncatalogued by the major search engines. > >Now we've challenged ourselves to replace Greasemonkey with a proxy >composed of Ruby. > >= The Workings = >How does this proxy work? Well, THAT I can tell you. > >* The proxy has a directory named `userScripts' which contains a bunch >of files with a .user.rb extension. >* You start up the proxy on your machine. >* Setup the proxy in the connection settings in your browser. >* As you surf, the proxy will rewrite the web, based on the scripts you >have in your `userScripts' directory. > >The proxy is currently quite slow. And the HTML gets pretty munged >sometimes. And there is no caching. > >But it's definitely cross-browser. And uses REXML for XPath support, >open-uri as a replacement for XMLHttpRequest, and JSON reading and printing. > >= Crawling into the Hole = >A few MouseHole links: > >* Project page: >* Downloads: >* Announcement: > >Over the next few days, we'll feature some basic user scripts on >RedHanded, so you can get the hang of scripting this thing. > This looks like some kind of revolution starting over there at RedHanded. I have this feeling that someone could end up winning next year's 'Hacker-of-the-year award' over all this... or perhaps a very slight chance of banishment to Guantanamo (unlikely, but look on the bright side, it's a tropical paradise). Kudos and keep up the good work! Phil