WebMate Proxy

The main functions of the system:

1. File
   Save Setup : Quit
2. Edit
   Clear Profile
3. Monitor
   Bookmark : URLs : Resources : Time
4. Options
   Alias : Dictionary : Filters : Resource : Search : Translate
5. Control
   Stop : Prefetch : Online : Animation : Access
6. Alias
7. Dictionary
8. Filters
   Usage : Referer : Agent : Server : Cookie : Logger : Snoop
9. Resource
10. Search
11. Translate
12. Stop

• File
  
  
  
  1. Save Setup: Save the setup options when you configurate the system at the first time.
     
     
  2. Quit: Quit the system.
  
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• Edit
  
  
  
  1. Clear Profile: When your interesting changed, you can delete the old interesting profile and start to build a new profile. Be careful to do this.
  
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• Monitor
  
  
  The system can monitor the changes of the bookmark, specific URLs. It can also automatically look for the links whick are interesting to you at the resources.
  
  
  1. Setup the bookmarks you want the system to monitor. Now the system only support the bookmark of Netscape and the favorites of Internet Explorer. Don't change the name of the browsers, just set the file name of the bookmark of Netscape, or the directory of the favorites of IE correctly. You can get the changes in the applet window by selecting "What's New".
     
     
     
  2. Enter the URLs you want the system to monitor. You should enter the full URL (such as http://cs.university.edu/) and don't modify the numbers between "<" and ">". You can get the changes in the applet window by selecting "What's New".
     
     
     
  3. Resources
     
     
  4. Setup when the system will start to monitor. Generally the time is set to midnight, but you can let the system immediately monitor by selecting "immediately".
     
     
     
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• Options
  
  
  You can activate or deactivate the different windows: Alias, Dictionary, Filters, Translate, Search.
  
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• Control
  
  
  
  1. Stop
     
     
  2. Prefetch: By default, it is set to non-prefetch. If it is allowed, the system will fetch contents of all the embedded hyperlinks in the current page to local disk. So it will speed up your browsing when you have a low-band network connection or the servers are not fast. On the other hand, because there are lots of threads running on your machine, it will affect the browser's running. Be careful to use this function.
     
     
  3. Online: By default, it is set to online browsing. If you have downloaded some sites to your local disk, you can set turn off online browsing. The system look for the pages in the local disk at first, if it can't find, go outside to fetch those pages. When the system is set to offline browsing, it will prompt you the downloaded URLs in your local disk as following:
     
     
     
     
  4. Animation: By default, the system allows animation gif file. If you think that the animation gifs affect the browser running, you can disable the animation gif by un-check this function.
     
     
  5. Access: You can change the Proxy of WebMate, add or delete the hosts that can access the WebMate system.
     
     
     
     
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• Alias
  
  
  Alias is a short name to some URL and you can input an alias to the "Location" input field and get the page of the corresponding URL. You can delete, edit, or add an alias. For example, enter the alias "java api" (in some browsers, you should enter "java+api" although the alias is defined "java api". So it is a good way to replace the space with "+" when enter to the "Location") in the "Location" input field.
  
  
  
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• Dictionary
  
  
  You can set the online dictionaries in here. In the future, we are going to develop local embedded dictionaries.
  
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• Filters
  
  
  You can enable or disable these availabe filters. In the future, we are going to develop more filters if you can give us what you want to filter.
  
  
  1. Usage: Maintain various usages about your HTTP session. Useful to calculate the exact site of a web page.
     
     
  2. Referer: Change the HTTP referer header to any URL or choose from a list.
     
     
  3. Server: Change the HTTP Server header.
     
     
  4. Agent: Change the HTTP User-Agent header to any web browser or choose from a list.
     
     
  5. Cookie: Remove or record HTTP Cookie headers "Cookie" and "Set-Cookie".
     
     
  6. Logger: Keep a log of accessed URLs.
     
     
  7. Snoop: View all HTTP headers.
     
     
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• Resource
  
  
  You can collect resources from that the system looks for the links that is interesting to you. So the URLs in the resources should include lots of links and headlines. For example, the URL of webnews collection of Linkexchange.
  
  
  
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• Search
  
  
  The popular search engines are listed in here. You can enable or disenble some of the search engines according to your preference. The system will activate enabled search engines in multi-thread. So it is better than you use one search engine at a time, what is more, you can get the better results if several search engines work parellelly.
  
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• Translate
  
  
  You can set the online translation systems in here. In the future, we are going to develop local embedded translation systems.
  
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• Stop
  
  Stop all the currently activated threads. Some times you should click the stop button several times until all the threads stop. You can see the activated threads in the monitor frame.
  
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