[OT] Downloads from Simtel with Proxomitron

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I'm the archivist, I take care of the archive. I ran the old one too.
I don't deal with the public. Except here, when someone had a question
about functionality.

You proposed an unrealistic scenario: return to a setup with no
possibility of income. I explained why that wouldn't work, and how you
were a part of the problem.

Sorry if that causes a problem. No .. no, I'm not. You propose a
business model that will keep a web site (with paid employees) afloat ..
with no ads, no sales, no fees, and no subscriptions. We can't do that.
Neither can you. Neither does Google. If everyone could figure how to
make money like Google does, it would be a happier world. We didn't. I
suspect neither did you.

The pages load fine .. except when a file is not found at a particular
mirror site at the download phase. They never did work out the glitches
there, to present a proper error screen instead of the bloody "look at
this ad while you download" commercial requirement. Not my area, not my
problem to solve, and they wouldn't accept my solution ("throw out the
bloody ad").

A new design is in the works anyway, so all this is moot.

Regards,
David
 
Maybe I'm missing a point here. I've got the proxy setting (localhost 8080
stuff) in IE but not in AB. So when I hit the proxy button I have to go to
Direct Connect (IE is checked by default) to get simtel to work. I then
recheck the IE Setting under the Proxy button menu and it tells me to s/d
and restart if I want IE settings to be active.

I'm guessing I should put this info directly in AB and check/uncheck it
there?

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| In article <[email protected]>,
| (e-mail address removed) says...
| > As it turns out I am using AB so this approach does work. Now instead of
| > restarting proxmo I have to restart AB which is somewhat more convenient
but
| > still a bit of an aggravation.
| >
| > Trying the bypass before starting doesn't do the trick either.
| >
| >
| You don't have to restart AB. Just click on the proxy button. It turns
| the proxy on or off without restarting the program.
 
Hopefully there are some Proxomitron users here <g>.

So far the only way I have found to download from www.simtel.net is
by shutting down Proxo - simply bypassing does not work. Is there
another way to d/l without shutting proxo down? Thanks.
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Name = "Simtel - Direct File Link"
Active = TRUE
URL = "www.simtel.net"
Limit = 1024
Match = "<frameset rows="100%,*" frameborder="0" border="0"
framespacing="0" * </frameset>*"
"<noframes>*"
"<body>*"
"<A HREF="\1">*</A>*"
"</body></noframes>"
Replace = "<body><br /><br /><a href="\1">\1</a></body>"


Try adding this Proxomitron filter to your default.cfg
(or whatever you use), then try downloading from this link:

http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/60070.shtml
 
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