Author: Peter Karman (Page 25 of 76)

I need to test web apps with IE7 for $work. I work from home and use a reverse SSH tunnel into the corporate LAN. I run a SOCKS5 proxy using the -D option to ssh over the reverse tunnel. I use a Mac.

What’s a geek to do with these odds and ends?

I run VirtualBox (free VM from Sun) with WinXP for IE7. No problem. I use Putty to open a ssh SOCKS5 proxy over the reverse ssh tunnel. No problem. Problem: IE7 does not route DNS requests over SOCKS so even though I can theoretically get to the remote HTTP server, I can’t resolve names inside the corporate LAN using the corporate DNS server.

The Russians to the rescue.

A nice little Windows app that lets any Windows app proxy through it. Now I can test my web apps with IE7 under a VM on a Mac using a reverse SSH tunnel + SOCKS5 proxy.

How’s that for jargon overload on a Friday?

After several weeks of late nights and OCD-tinged hacking, I’m pleased to have uploaded version 0.26 of Search::Tools to CPAN.

I’ve also started a page just for this module.

The big thing in this release is a rewrite in XS/C for much of the tokenizing and snippet extraction code. That, and lots more test coverage. A big thanks to Henry at zen for prompting this development and release and for providing good bug reports.

I also want to acknowledge how awesome the NYTProf profiling tool is. Helped me find all the bottlenecks.