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OP tests

I'm just wondering how USer:ClueBot IV determines when IPs are open proxies, and where it gets the data for that determination. Thanks in advance! – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

There is no place it gets its data. It scans the IP addresses with scanning tools that the other verified proxy checkers use. In many cases, its scan is more thorough than a verified proxy checker's scan. It knows it is an open proxy when it can actually connect *through* the proxy to Wikipedia. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 19:46, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. What scanning tool, and where can I get it/something similar? – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 20:08, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Nmap would work very well to get the port list, it uses libopm with a HTTP GET scanning patch to actually check for open proxies. Flexscan is the tool it uses to get a port list, but it also uses nmap to get a version list of the servers on the remote host. But, nmap can do all of this. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 20:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much; this is exactly what I was looking for. – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 20:33, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Question about ClueBot III

The ArchiveThis template just views indicies, but how does the bot detect actually when to archive and who to archive? --Coastergeekperson04 01:27, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the ArchiveThis template tells ClueBot where to archive, the parameters to it tell it when and how to archive. The template shows the indicies as an added bonus if the index parameter is set to yes. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 02:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)