Introduction
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Proxyknife is a small program to validate proxy released under the GNU General Public License (GPL,see COPYING file in the same directory). A little featurelist is in the file named FEATURELIST in the same directory.

Proxyknife works in most of Linux distributions,SunOS and OSF1 or more.
The current version of proxyknife is 1.3. Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/proxyknife

Proxyknife was written from scratch by Jia Wang.
MAINTAINER: Jia Wang <skyroam@gmail.com>
Please report bugs  to <skyroam@gmail.com>


Documentation
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See info (created by makeinfo, thanks to gnu) file or man (created by txt2tags, thanks to Aurelio Marinho Jargas) page for detail.

To print document, just cd doc and type:
dvips proxyknife.dvi

The html document is also availabe in doc/en. 

You can view them with "info proxyknife" ,"man proxyknife", "xdvi proxyknife.dvi" , "gv proxyknife.pdf" or "lynx index.html".

Info file:
doc/proxyknife.info

Man page:
doc/proxyknife.1

Html help:
doc/en/index.html 

INSTALL
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Please see file INSTALL in the same directory.

Configuration
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1.File proxyknife.conf shoud be customed to fit your need:
    cp doc/proxyknife.conf.example /path/to/running/proxyknife.conf
  then read proxyknife.conf and custom it.
2.Proxies to be verified must be stored in a file named proxylist. 
  there is a example list in doc directory:
    cp doc/proxylist /path/to/running/
3.The result was displayed  and stored into file named proxyout.
    cp scripts/sortlist /path/to/running/
    chmod u+x sortlist
  then you can use sortlist to sort free proxies in proxyout

Usage
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Edit proxyknife.conf then run: 
proxyknife


It is a good start to type `./proxyknife --help'.


