Webcleaner a Filtering HTTP Proxy
By Reaper-X on Jul 13, 2006 in Computer, Computer Security, Freeware, Internet Tools, Linux, Open Source, Privacy, Security Tools, Software, Windows
I’ve been using this content filtering proxy software for several months in conjunction with squid proxy and this free software greatly improves my browsing experience, since a lot of web banners, tracker, useless javascript, etc
has been filtered so i only view the real web pages without any adverts, tracker that disturb my browsing experience. Although there’s still a few bugs left in this content filtering software especially if you’re using this software with Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 , this software deserves a try.
Here’s a what webcleaner can do :
- Remove unwanted HTML (adverts, flash, etc.)
- Popup blocker
- Disable animated GIFs
- Filter images by size, remove banner adverts
- Compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip)
- Reduce images to low-bandwidth JPEGs
- Remove/add/modify arbitrary HTTP headers
- Configurable over web interface
- Usage of SquidGuard blacklists
- Antivirus filter module
- Detection and correction of known HTML security flaws
- Basic, Digest and (untested) NTLM proxy authentication support
- Per-host access control
- HTTP/1.1 support (persistent connections, pipelining)
- HTTPS support (both forwarding and filtering)
But the most usefull features of this software is the Javascript filtering feature and removing IFrame tag from a website. Because alot of website banner/ads are put into IFrame tag, and there are a few site which is using javascript to display their ads (like sourceforge for example) or just to filter nasty javascript/html from webpages. So try it today

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