couldn’t this be done without greasemonkey, given the recent security issues with that package?

perhaps a nice portable webrick-based proxy, or something?

Haha, subversive.

But, yeah, like rcoder says … I don’t think I’d feel safe using greasemonkey just now.

ASCI Itastic. Love it.

hmmm… a webrick-based greasemonkey replacment programmed in a combination of Ruby and Javascript. The next big thing? Maybe we should keep this quiet until we’re ready to unleash it on the world.

Fox Tall and Fox Small have treed the greasemonkey using their Ruby and Webrick skills.

hehe, visions of a brillian red monkey laying a foundation of pure data bricks for a mixed up future. Splendid

rcoder: so you setup a webrick proxy that does greasmonkey-ish tranformations and then tell your browser to use that proxy, correct? This should work with any browser even IE (not sure why anyone would use IE, but someone must) whereas the greasemonkey only works with FireFox. Seems like such a simple idea, why didn’t anyone here think of it earlier?

Wow, this is so cool.

But agreed, I don’t wanna use Firefox. It doesn’t work with the rest of my OS. Safari preferage.

So where’s the CVS repository (or SVN if that’s your preference) for this new scarlet monkey? Let’s get started on this thing.

i don’t get it.

Nice instructions. On port 80, it’s an empty page. Do I ping this address? Telnet to it on some obscure port? Drb it? What?

dense: try: http://65.125.236.166/

... at least that’s what I did. Maybe something else happens if you Drb it, but I didn’t try it.

Worked a couple of hours ago (on port 80; http), but now it’s just dead. Oh, well, we’re now busily working on our Ruby-based Greasemonkey replacement anyway (aren’t we? please someone get the ball rolling)

we are lazy!

We’ll have no Cupid hoodwink’d with a scarf, or any other top-garments mind you, they are too too stuffy.

it still works..

Add the line from the article to /etc/hosts and browse “hoodwink.d” to read the blurb

Okay, that’s a cool trick… how does that work?

Danno: host headers, but that’s not what the excited hand-rubbing is all about.

Danno: The excited hand-rubbing is all just incidental to this hoodwink’d thingy. It’s just one of those synchronicities where someone says “Hey, come look at this hoodwink’d thingy (oh and you’ve gotta use Greasemonkey)” and then someone else says “Greasemonkey, I don’t like it, it’s not secure, what about using Webrick?” and then it’s like a Eureka moment. The hoodwink’d thing, which is still mildly interesting (sorry, _why) becomes the secondary thing while people chew on the idea of Webrick replacing Greasemonkey and then rub their hands together dreaming of Ruby World domination.

So what should we call this? StarMonkey? RedFox? GreaseFox? Brick-O-lage?

+1 Brick-O-lage

Wait… Is this SE?

Oh, there’s no doubt about what we should call it: GreasyBacon (ChunkyMonkey is, of course, already taken).

(BTW: I roughly understood what y’all were talking about once I actually got to the page, I just think the hosts redirect thing is a neat trick.)

I’m patiently waiting for the next steps, sir. :-)

actually, i have thought of this before. and if i did, and y’all are, then others must have as well. anyway, it was just a rails teaching tool for myself, so i’ll share the couple bits i figgered out, but no source.

incidentally, the idea was a local spurl.net type service, and i said, hey, now how easy would it be to add greasemonkey type support to that? and then i said Very Easy! and then i didn’t do anything with it, because i personally don’t care about greasemonkey, although i understand it’s appeal.

so, here’s a good idea anyway. user visits http://localhost to start their session. greasybacon needs to find out if it is already set as the proxy. so have it open a socket to google or some stalwart always-up provider to insure that net access is up and unblocked from the gbacon’s viewpoint. at the same time (or directly after), the gb home page has an invisible iframe pointed to the same location. if gb intercepts that iframe src request, we can assume safely that gb is already set up as the local proxy and go about out bizness.

if it doesn’t intercept the request, then we aren’t, or a small chance there’s something more fundamentally wrong.

anyway, assuming we are, next step (actually probably done synchronously) is to browser/user/platform sniff. The whole “sniff the browser and then show detailed instructions on what to click to set up your proxy” is old-school, in the dumb way, not the hip way. so you show an index page that roughly says “You are using Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP.
If you would like to set greasybacon as your proxy, please download and run this¹ file. If you are using a different browser, or would like to configure these settings manually, please choose from this menu.” where [1] can be a .reg file, or a .rb file that patches up ff’s network.http.proxy and such.

usability is fun!

When did RedHanded turn into a complete disaster in Safari? Or is it just me? Works fine in Firefox. Even looks alright in Mac IE.

This is pretty unremarkable when you’re stuck behind a proxy that decides how to resolve all your addresses. Any chance of using a real hostname? ;-p

wow.

Work fine for me in Safari

Matt: No idea about Safari, but Opera’s always rendered comments very badly here for me. Looking at the CSS I can’t say I’m surprised, ew.

Oh, apparantly preview is broken too. Go standards.

Lots of implications for this.

Yes I want a serverside or clientside greasemonkey proxy with Xquery please.

What the hell is all this aboot?

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Ooh. Nice-ish.

hmmm

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Nice trick!!!

But your validation is way too slow !! Use some ajax!!!

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