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Using a Proxy Server to manipulate time events.
I'm working on a custom web proxy that the RescueTime app would use to relay it's updates through. The primary goal is to allow me a chance to reformat the time events and give them more a more specific app_name so that I can tag them with more ganularity. From looking at the discussion boards, it seems that this feature may be built into the app at a future time, but by using a proxy, I can also trigger sending time events to another time-tracking system.
Right now, I can use my proxy with a web browser and (although slow) it works fine but when I point my ResueTime app to it, it times out on trying to receive the handshake response.
Is there a way to change the timeout of the RescueTime app(Windows)?
I'll be happy to post the proxy script when I get it working.
-Andrew
Right now, I can use my proxy with a web browser and (although slow) it works fine but when I point my ResueTime app to it, it times out on trying to receive the handshake response.
Is there a way to change the timeout of the RescueTime app(Windows)?
I'll be happy to post the proxy script when I get it working.
-Andrew
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Inappropriate?I will look at adding a way of letting you customize the timeout. Actually, the timeout on the Windows version of RescueTime is a little short to begin with so I will bump that up a bit which may solve your issue outright.
The Proxy is a great idea and I've been following your suggestions on regex solutions to app naming. As you stated, this is something that is on our future feature list and I hope to get time soon to work on getting that out there! -
Inappropriate?I've got my proxy running pretty good now. Since it's a prototype, all the rules are hard coded in at the moment. I have rules for:
putty : SSH client
Dreamweaver
phped : PHP IDE
explorer
The explorer rule will pull out the first folder after the "My Documents" folder.
$preg_match_str = "@^\'(.+)My\+Documents%5c(.+?)[%5c.*\'$|\'$]@";
This assumes that you create project named folders under your "My Documents" folder. If you do the proxy will rewrite the app_name to:
explorer_projectname
and you will be able to tag and track it specifically.
I'd give out my proxy's IP:Port but I'm afraid it might be overwhelmed. It's just a single threaded server so it's a bit fragile.
If anyone's interested in giving it a try, please send me an email to:
andrew at lunde dot com
and put "RescueTime Proxy: " at the start of the subject.
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