On 22 Jan 1998 02:22:29 -0600, ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home) wrote:
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Speaking of browsers: I'd rather *pay* for a browser that has such an obvious feature as a list of URL regexps that you don't want to browse. Neither IE nor Netscape has it. I don't know about Lynx. I'm now using junkbuster from www.junkbuster.com (highly recommended) to filter out ads and banners and cookies. I generally think WWW sucks; but if I use it, I want to be able to tell the browser that if the page tried to load an image from a URL that looks like
valueclick.com bannermall.com adforce.*.com/ bannerweb.com eads.com/ /*/sponsors/*.gif *banner*.gif /image/ads/
etc etc, I want the browse to ignore this request. Clearly Microsoft and Netscape both don't give a damn about the desires of their NON-PAYING users and would rather bend over for the advertisers.
I suggest writing a proxy server that does such filtering, running it on the local machine, and using it as proxy server from your netscape browser.
There is a proxy server in form of a 20 line perl script, you can take it and modify it.
- Igor.
If you have a unix box, try using the roxen web/proxy server. It has a regexp module that does exactly this. http://www.roxen.com -- Phelix