Re: Access to proxy@8080 or 8082

Michael wrote:
> foxyproxy firefox extension can switch between proxies, either on click or by regexpr filtering.
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> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2464
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Firefox consumes too much RAM, slows down my system too much... but yes, 
it is nice.  I found "switchproxy" to be a more useful addon to quickly 
switch between the wwwoffle-online daemon and the wwwoffle-offline 
daemon.  All the browsers have the "dirty ram" bug, having to be 
restarted constantly, the Camino browser consumes half the RAM, so has 
to be restarted less often.

I tried to implement Andrews suggestion i.e. localhost:8080/http/URL in 
code, but it caused some sort of socket overflow and some of the data 
was missed.  (a wait-state somewhere would fix?) Perhaps this is 
particular to MacOS.  I found that using an external request to the CURL 
program allowed me to address my offline proxy localhost:8082, without 
any overflow problems, the problem being that this is non-portable and 
would work on my system only.