OpenEuphoria

Re: proxy

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Jul 09, 2003
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On 9 Jul 2003, at 18:18, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <gertie at visionsix.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Subject: proxy
> 
> 
> > Jeeze, it's happened again. I mention the http proxy to an EX-Eu 
> > programmer, and he stops talking to me. Is someone paying you people to 
> > NOT help me with this?? What can i offer to convince you i want this thing?
> > Or
> > are you convinced i want it, and are just sitting back laughing with your
> > good
> > fortune to be in a position to deny me something?
> 
> Kat,
> can I recommend that you WRITE down all your requirements, with **as much
> detail
> as possible**, for the application you need. By requirements, I stress that
> this
> is not the same as a description of how its going to achieve its 'magic',
> instead its a description of what the application needs to be able to do or
> deliver. You may need to spell out, in detail, any limitations that would
> apply
> too - such as it must run in a Linux (Debian-preferred) environment, etc...

The OS didn't matter to me, other than it be running on a shell hosting 
company that doesn't reboot every day, meaning it would be a nix box of 
some flavor to be stable.
 
> Publish the Requirements Specification for scrutiny and comment, then update
> it
> in light of the feedback you get. Publish the updated version and then see if
> anyone here is capable of creating the application.

I did. This has been a thread here for a yr now.

> My feeling is that this will be a lot of work to develop correctly, so it may
> be
> difficult for people to donate much time. For example, $US500 would normally
> buy
> about 5 hours of my time at commercial rates and I suspect that the
> application
> you describe would eat up at least 200 hours.

That's amazing, considering i set up a tcp dcc proxy in mirc in 5 MINUTES, 
and set up http proxying (with of options) in mirc in AN HOUR. On win95. 

I expect i'll be rebooting this weekend, and removing those two harddrives i'd 
have been using in a web venture, so don't start on a 200  hour coding spree. 
People have had the time already to earn the $100/$500, they didn't care to. 
Once the drives are out, i'll be out of here too.

Kat