Gregory Maxwell wrote:
It's not like testing is all love and flowers.. generally if you run your own tester you can expect a fair number of angry emails as your probes trigger off peoples stupid personal firewalls. Perhaps that would be mitigated if we only executed that test if someone failed the SORBS list... a quick freshmeat search yields a half dozen proxy testers that we could use.
I expect the SORBS list to have IP numbers along with port numbers. To test if such a combination is still an open proxy, you need only one probe. Given that the combination is on the SORBS list, nobody should have grounds to complain. But to test if an IP is an open proxy, you need to try all sorts of possible port numbers; *this* is often construed as "port-scanning" and regarded as condemnable.
We already have a proxy tester that does the latter. It is disabled for exactly this reason.
Timwi