Working without a proxy

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Hello!

Unfortunately MinD lacks documentation and I also could not find any difference 
between mind.conf and dansguardian.conf. Would you please explain to me about 
the "Simple Proxy" and "Transparent Proxy" modes?

I use DansGuardian with some firewall rules for a transparent redirection, 
which requires a proxy like Squid... This is a heavyweight setup. And since we 
read "Now Squid or others proxies are not necessary to use the content 
filtering", I'd like to know how does that setup work.

The idea would be a transparent redirection without the need for a proxy, if 
possible and, if not, what should be the advantages over DansGuardian?

Thank you and best regards!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by teresaejunior on 4 Mar 2011 at 5:36

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Hi

In my case the simple proxy was already activated with standard config. In the 
last revision the developpers deleted the new mind directives(beneath the 
simpleproxy option too) in the standard configfile. (Maybe there are some 
problems with some of these directives). However, if you want to try you can 
access source r28 (http://code.google.com/p/mindwebfilter/source/detail?r=28) 
and just open the /trunk/mind/configs/mind.conf.in file. There you'll see the 
new directives(red marked)

best regards

Original comment by t...@gmx.ch on 7 Mar 2011 at 4:30

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Hello!

Thanks for your reply! Yes, it seems they've deprecated those features. Hope 
they'll merge them again soon!

Thanks and best regards!
Teresa e Junior

Original comment by teresaejunior on 7 Mar 2011 at 6:57

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Hi Guys,

First of all, thanks to t0b1 for the clarification.
In fact this file were changed by mistake, in a few minutes I will upload the 
new one to the repository. Please perform an update in order to have the latest 
one.

It is true that MinD project does not have all documentation we want yet, but 
to maintain a project of this dimensions are a hard job. Anyway, regarding to 
configurations keys, I thing they are well documented. Isn't it?

MinD does not requires Squid or any proxy for work. But if you want you can use 
it in chained proxy work mode.

The difference between simple proxy and transparent proxy is simple. When you 
use simple proxy (configuring all browsers in explicit proxy) and the 
transparentproxy key setted as off, MinD will work exactly as Dansguardian do 
(but without needing to use Squid).
If you configure the transparentproxy key as on, and redirect the traffic with 
a DNAT iptables rules, MinD use a five generation proxy technique in order to 
give a better performance. But in this case you MUST NOT to configure your 
browser for using explicit proxy because this will cause several navigation 
problems due to connection handler. 

Regarding your question: ... what should be the advantages over DansGuardian? 
We never said Toy version of MinD has advantages over DG, anyway, I think it 
has some of those. XD

Original comment by mind....@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2011 at 8:08

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Original comment by mind....@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2011 at 8:08

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Original comment by mind....@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2011 at 8:08

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Created: http://code.google.com/p/mindwebfilter/wiki/ToyConfiguation
And solved at revision 33.

Original comment by mind....@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2011 at 8:19

• Changed state: Fixed

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I'm sorry, solved at revision 34

Original comment by mind....@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2011 at 8:30

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I'm sorry (again) this is embarrassing. I forgot to set filterIP key, and we 
have an issue if this key is not setted. please use revision 35

Thanks for supporting MinD.

Original comment by mind....@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2011 at 9:18