[plug] Proxy module to convert common images to ASCII art?

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 12:29, Jonathan Young wrote:
> Actually, that's a good angle that I hadn't thought of.  Run whatever
> software you choose to run to shrink the pages down to size and serve
> the miniature version off your own server and connect directly to that
> with the handheld or whatever.  Again though, if it is general web
> browsing over many different pages / sites it might be tough to do it
> 'on the fly'.
> 
> Some more details of what the exact circumstances are from Chris' end
> might be useful at this point...
> 
> 
Well I haven't signed up with a mobile data provider yet but I expect to
be using the service from my laptop that dual boots between Windows and
Linux. Getting their hardware to work with Linux will be another issue.

I'm spending about $60-$70 a month on my prepaid virgin account so am
considering going for a $50 voice cap (with the potential to spend less)
and about $30 per month data. 

Nick's suggestion (Ziproxy, RabbIT and WWWOFFLE)  looks very handy and I
will look into it and be sure to post back here if I have problems
setting it up. I think ASCII art has a real coolness factor but low
quality images are definitely something I should consider.

regards,

Chris 


> Nick Bannon wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:06:15PM +0800, Jonathan Young wrote:
> >   
> > > I might be wrong, but all of the ideas so far would need to be 
> > > implemented server side.
> > >     
> > [...]
> > 
> > Mostly, but that's easy to arrange by running your "shrinking proxy"
> > on your home ADSL and saving bytes across your expensive UMTS or GPRS
> > mobile link.
> > 
> > Even without that, running proxies locally can still be useful. As you
> > mentioned, you can turn images and plugins off, but with these let you
> > make sure gzip compression is being asked for, block classes of images
> > or hosts, cache files more aggressively, etc.
> > 
> > Nick.
> > 
> >   
> 
> 
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