Program development news
09-June-2007 :
ProxyBag 1.01 has been released :
- Proxy web import has been fully rewritten and improved. Proxies listed as host names are now correctly imported, some leech-protected pages are imported too (however Javascript protected pages will probably never be imported).
- Added detailed error messages when a proxy is tagged as BAD.
- Added a start message when program is finding user IP address at launch and seems to hang.
- Fixed various minor things that were not real bugs.
- Updated URL of web sites providing proxies listings.
- Several speed improvements.
- Recompiled program with new Python and WxWidgets versions for more stability and speed.
- Updated documentation, converted it to HTML for better appearance and moved online.
- Left beta status as no major bugs were reported durint last months.

18-July-2005 :
ProxyBag 1.0 Beta 6 is finally released, program is now able to get more information about proxies :
- Program now uses ProxyJudge to get your real IP, not whatismyip anymore.
- Revamped configuration window to reorder program options.
- Fixed a window refresh bug causing display problems when clicking on column headers and during the scan.
- Fixed a window refresh bug when deleting a single proxy.
- Fixed a bug with column sorting.
- Program can now discover country of proxy.
- Program can now evaluate bandwidth of proxy with a specified file URL.
- You can now choose to get or not your real ip address at program startup.
- Improved options window with better descriptions and sections.
- Added some details to know why a proxy is BAD (filtered, closed...).
- Prepared program to be translated in any language, not activated yet.
- Fixed a bug when using an ip address in proxyjudge url.
- Updated URL of web sites providing proxies listings.

17-June-2004 :
ProxyBag 1.0 Beta 5 is released, the anonymity check has been greatly improved and is now more reliable. Here come the news :
- Program now tries to get your real ip at startup using http://www.whatismyip.com (it only grabs the ip displayed on the page, no data are passed "secretly"). With your real ip, the proxy anonymity check will now display YES or NO in the column instead of level as it is very more reliable than before.
- Added an option to reset proxy status in popup menu. Doing it during scan will ask program to check again this proxy if you are not satisfied with result.
- Fixed a bug in listing refresh when deleting a proxy.
- New program installer using the excellent NSIS from NullSoft.

23-Apr-2004 :
ProxyBag 1.0 Beta 4 source code is released, it should have been done in december.

12-Dec-2003 :
ProxyBag 1.0 Beta 4 is released. It seems to work nicely because no new bugs have been reported since Beta 3. So what's new in this version ?
- Main window can now be resized.
- Fixed bug with status bar overlapping some pixels of proxies listing.
- Fixed proxy check status, program will now wait for anonymity verification (if activated) to complete before display OK for the proxy.

28-Oct-2003 :
ProxyBag 1.0 Beta 3 just released to fix a nasty last-minute bug. Download it now.

28-Oct-2003 :
ProxyBag 1.0 Beta 2 is available for download. So what's new ?
- Added threads to accelerate scan, up to 20 proxies can be checked at the same time instead of only one.
- Added "Open in browser" option in proxy popup menu. It will display proxy homepage, if any.
- Added some progress information (%) and a gauge in status bar.
- Added columns sort for proxies listing.
- Improved loading and display of very big proxy lists.
- Improved socket errors support.
- Aborting a scan doesn't hang anymore the main window until it's done.
- Added new URLs in configuration file to import more proxies from the web.
- Time-out value is now also used during transaction with proxies. If no data are received before the timeout value, the connection will be cancelled.
- Using nice Python Psyco accelerator to boost program execution speed.

19-Sept-2003 :
ProxyBag 1.0 Beta 1 is available for download. Try it now !