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cyfdecyf committed Nov 21, 2012
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- Convert socks proxy to HTTP proxy
- Can start socks proxy server through ssh, requires public key authentication

# Limitations #

- Designed to run on your own computer
- No caching, COW just passes traffic between clients and web servers
- For web browsing, browsers have their own cache
- Beta quality now
- I'm using COW as system wide proxy on OS X 10.8 everyday
- Issue reporting is welcomed

# Installation #

Install [go](http://golang.org/doc/install), then run
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- Domains appear in `blocked/direct/chou` will not be modified by COW, and will be automatically removed from `auto-blocked` and `auto-direct`
- Domains appear in both `blocked` and `direct` are taken as blocked, COW will output an error message for such domains
- You'd better maintain consistency of `blocked/direct/chou`

# Limitations #

- Designed to run on your own computer
- No caching, COW just passes traffic between clients and web servers
- For web browsing, browsers have their own cache
- Blocked site detection not reliable
- Upon the following error, one domain is considered to be blocked
- Server connection reset
- Connection to server timeout
- Read from server timeout
- Directly accessible sites maybe identified as blocked site when the network connection is not reliable
- Beta quality now
- Stable enough for myself. I'm using COW as system wide proxy on OS X 10.8 everyday
- Issue reporting is welcomed

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