What is eDexter?
eDexter is a program that acts as a local-only (it is not accessible through the Internet) hTTP server on your computer. It is used to replace the empty boxes that occur when you use the hosts file to block ads. eDexter will put one of its own images into the box that would have been occupied by the advertisement. This way, you will not have large, empty boxes in your browser and will instead have an image where the box used to be. The smoothest and quickest way to handle all hosts redirects is to use a “hosts support application” like eDexter. eDexter resides at 127.0.0.1 and takes the place of an hTTP server. When hosts redirects a request to 127.0.0.1 eDexter issues an error code of 200 to the application making the request, which is precisely what the application is looking for and this thoroughly satisfies the application (i.e. web browser). This quick response by eDexter is what makes the entire redirect process happen with remarkable smoothness and speed. Using hosts as a filter
eDexter is a personal HTTP (like the web) server. This means that it runs entirely on your computer and can interact with your web browser. It does this so that it can put images of its own in the place of the blocked advertisements. You would want to do this so that you do not see annoying empty white boxes with x’s or something like that in them.
eDexter is a program that acts as a local-only (it is not accessible throught the Internet) HTTP server on your computer. It is used to replace the empty boxes that occur when you use the Hosts file to block ads. eDexter will put one of its own images into the box that would have been occupied by the advertisement. This way, you will not have large, empty boxes in your browser and will instead have an image where the box used to be. The site you have blocked in your Hosts file will still not be contacted at all, and so your web browsing can not be monitored by that site in any way as they won’t even know your IP address because the Hosts file has blocked it. The replacement images will load completely off your hard drive and not from an external site, so eDexter is completely self-contained on your computer. eDexter can use either its own internal 43 byte image, which is very fast, or it can use the included images. To use the internal image, make sure the check mark is gone from the “
