Copyright 2008 Eric Shane Radman

media-sanitizer is a redirector for personal use that rids most web pages of
annoying graphics. It written for use with the Polipo web proxy.

This is free software; you may redistribute, modify, and use it under the terms
of the Modified BSD License.

INSTALLATION

1. Tweak the parameters in 'config.h'
2. Set the installation parameters in Makefile (by default it will install to
   $HOME/bin)
3. Run make && make install
4. Copy 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' to the destination specified in config.h
5. Set your proxy server's external redirector to use the new filter

USE

To show current rule-set monitor '/var/log/messages':
% kill -USR2 `pgrep media-sanitizer`

To reload rule files:
% kill -HUP `pgrep media-sanitizer`

A small shell script is included that loads the whitelist into vi and then
restarts the sanitizier when you exit:
% visanitizer

CAVEATS

- Does not understand extra data that Squid sends, only expects a URL
- Simple substring matching is fast, but also proportional to the number of rules

Send questions or comments to:

  theman@eradman.com