> Message: 5 > From: "J.L.Francois" > Organization: Ciber Inc. & FSIC - Ford Systems Integration Center > To: , > "der.hans" > Subject: Re: Frenchie success > Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:09:02 -0400 > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Since I wil have some free time before I go online again, I have been consi= > dering a rewrite > of the MagusNet Public Proxy.=20 > Sorry to say, between some of the Michigan laws and the Homeland Security e= > ffort, I may > test the waters for how autonomous I can be before doing the "cool" feature= > s I want to add. > > The feature I really want to implement is using a tinyurl.com style databas= > e to do time based URL obfuscation > to prevent replay of anonymized transactions while "hiding" the actual URL = > being viewed from proxy logs. Are you the guy behind the anonymizer? That was a great service. A belated thanks. I run a URL redirector called TidyURL.com (note the "d") but it's only used privately, as part of an SEO service. There is no "public" face to it. It just issues 301 redirects from short to long link (same as TinyURL and allthe others). Three clients and growing. I am a rank amateur programmer, but I am proud of my little 70-line CGI program. It is written in Python and uses the obscure "marshal" module to serialize objects to gain speed. It also keeps tracks of which spiders have been by lately. Next step: long-running process (instead of CGI) -- perhaps using the quirky "CherryPy" platform. Not sure yet. I am intrigued by what *I think* you are saying, above. You are talking about an anonymizer that leaves no footprints, or at least leaves different (and untraceable) footprints everywhere it goes? TidyURL gets very close to that, using a compbimation of CNAME pointing and subdomains. Interested in swapping a little know how? I don't know you but you seem to have a good rep here in the AZ Linux group... -- R. Craig Brooksby http://www.brxb.com