Proxy32

Execute pre-defined text interaction scenarios in Windows without using the keyboard - via sequence of mouse clicks!

Imagine capability to automatically (on mouse double-click) type text/commands into the windows of any third party terminals, browsers, editors etc.

Text of command is prepared in advance and can contain parameters (string substitution variables) with values that user can specify on every execution of the command or in advance.

When user double-clicks on the command node in GUI Tree, text of this command is inserted into keyboard driver queue (as if user typed text from keyboard into active window).

Proxy32 is Native (written in C++ and using Win32 API) Windows XP/Vista/7/8 Desktop manager that is built around this capability to execute pre-defined parametrized text interaction via sequence of mouse clicks.

This functionality is similar to what can be done via running Autohotkey scripts except that there is no need of programming sending commands into terminal by writing an .ahk script in proprietary Autohotkey language syntax. With Proxy32 user simply clicks on COMMAND nodes of GUI tree to send (prepared in advance and possibly parametrized) commands to selected terminal (or other application's) window. Another benefit is that with Proxy32 user can adapt to interaction scenario changes by selecting appropriate commands to be sent via sequence of mouse clicks. Proxy32 also has support for integration with Autohotkey (passing target window handle(s) as command line parameter(s) to Autohotkey script). Autohotkey scripts can be executed (by clicking on the nodes of GUI tree) when text interaction scenario has to be scripted in advance instead of being executed manually via sequence of mouse clicks.

Proxy32 Download
Proxy32 Documentation
    Introduction
    Main Window (aka Workspaces)
    Options Dialog
    Built-in Terminal
        Autologin in Terminal
        Unicode support in Terminal
        Terminal Session sharing (via TELNET)
            Secure terminal session sharing (via TELNET-TLS)
    LauncherTree (Automation controller gadget)
        LauncherTree basics
        LAUNCH and VIEWER Launchers, AUTOGRAB and Manual GRAB (create or capture Window of External Process)
        Terminal Launchers (Create/connect or reconnect Window of Built-in terminal)
        COMMAND Launchers (control Window of External Process or Window of Built-in terminal)
        SCRIPT/I-SCRIPT Launchers (control Window of Built-in terminal)
        PLUGIN/I-PLUGIN Launchers (control Window of Built-in terminal)
    Installation
    Special features
    Miscellaneous
Log of Changes
Documentation in Russian
Samples

Proxy32 Download

Download proxy32.exe (July 19th 2021). View changes in last version
Proxy32 Desktop manager has multiple workspaces and features its own built-in terminal with:
- decent XTERM emulation
- unlimited scrollback buffer
- PERL REGEX (PCRE) and literal text search in the unlimited scrollback buffer
- unlimited copy from scrollback buffer
- manual bookmarking in scrollback buffer
- automatic "typed command bookmarking" in scrollback buffer
- full UNICODE support for input and output
- capability to connect directly to CYGWIN shells (BASH, SSH, SFTP, TELNET, FTP, GNU SCREEN etc) and to Windows Console shells (PuTTY command line friends, cmd, PowerShell)
- terminal session sharing via TELNET or TELNET/TLS.
  As TLS can be used to secure terminal session sharing, Proxy32 includes full support for SSL/TLS:
  - creating self-signed root CA certifiactes
  - signing TLS server and client certificates with CA and Root CA certificates
  - managing trusted certificate stores (can be selected separately for Proxy32 TLS server and Proxy32 TLS client) in local pfx-files or in OS-wide Windows system certificate stores
- automation of interaction scenarios with remote host via very simple proprietary text scripts (SCRIPT/I-SCRIPT syntax):
  - SCRIPT syntax is just placing "commands to be send" one per line of the text file. Sending of the commands is controlled automatically by the duration of the pauses in the terminal output.
  - I-SCRIPT syntax is just placing 3 parameters per line of the text file ("command to be sent", "expected response prompt in PCRE regex syntax" and "timer" that tells terminal how long to wait for regex to match terminal output before the interaction should stop because of the timeout). It is Expect-like execution but in very simplified text notation that is interpreted by Proxy32 Terminal.
- automation of interaction scenarios with remote host via specially written local programs (PLUGINs) in any language.
  - Proxy32 Terminal PLUGINs use "UTF8 STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR" interface to control Proxy32 terminal's interaction with remote host
  - included sample AUTOLOGIN scripts (PERL PLUGINs) for connection to remote host via CYGWIN SSH, SFTP, TELNET and FTP
Screenshot
Download proxywinconsole.exe
proxywinconsole interface program is included into Proxy32 installation to support direct connection between Proxy32 Terminal and Windows Console shells. proxywinconsole starts requested Windows Console application (for example, cmd or PowerShell) in hidden Windows Console window. After start proxywinconsole translates its UTF-8 STDIN/STDOUT into Input/Output of hidden Windows Console window. That allows, for example, to execute cmd or PowerShell:
- from Proxy32 Terminal,
- from CYGWIN shell prompt or shell script,
- via CYGWIN sshd.
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Proxy32 Documentation

Introduction

Introduction

Main Window (aka Workspaces)

Main Window

Options Dialog

Options Dialog

Built-in Terminal

Terminal

Autologin in Terminal

AUTOLOGIN

Unicode support in Terminal

UNICODE support

Terminal Session Sharing

LauncherTree (Automation controller gadget)

LauncherTree basics

LAUNCH and VIEWER Launchers, AUTOGRAB and Manual GRAB (create or capture Window of External Process)

Windows of External Processes

Terminal Launchers (Create/connect or reconnect Window of Built-in terminal)

COMMAND Launchers (control Window of External Process or Window of Built-in terminal)

COMMAND Launcher

SCRIPT/I-SCRIPT Launchers (control Window of Built-in terminal)

SCRIPT/I-SCRIPT launchers

PLUGIN/I-PLUGIN Launchers (control Window of Built-in terminal)

PLUGIN Basics - PLUGIN is local program in any language that is specially written to interact with remote host on behalf of the user via PLUGIN interface of Proxy32 Terminal
gco.pl - "get command output" function to simplify writing PLUGINs for Proxy32 terminal in PERL. It sends command line to remote host and then collect responses of the remote host into PERL variable for analysis.
gco2.pl - modified original gco.pl function to send command line to remote host slowly, char by char, waiting 0.5 seconds before sending every next char.
gco3.pl - modified original gco.pl function that is also can be used to write standalone PERL scripts to directly control expect-spawned shell and to write PERL "robot filter" processes for GNU SCREEN program
How to write PLUGINs for Proxy32 terminal in Expect

Proxy32

Proxy32 Download

Proxy32 Documentation

Introduction

Main Window (aka Workspaces)

Options Dialog

Built-in Terminal

Autologin in Terminal

Unicode support in Terminal

Terminal Session sharing (via TELNET)

Secure terminal session sharing (via TELNET-TLS)

LauncherTree (Automation controller gadget)

LauncherTree basics

LAUNCH and VIEWER Launchers, AUTOGRAB and Manual GRAB (create or capture Window of External Process)

Terminal Launchers (Create/connect or reconnect Window of Built-in terminal)

COMMAND Launchers (control Window of External Process or Window of Built-in terminal)

SCRIPT/I-SCRIPT Launchers (control Window of Built-in terminal)

PLUGIN/I-PLUGIN Launchers (control Window of Built-in terminal)

E-SCRIPT Launchers and integration with AHK scripting language

Installation

Special features

Miscellaneous

Log of Changes

Documentation in Russian

Samples