Proxies.

Mar. 22nd, 2006 04:16 pm
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http://kryptonian-x.blogspot.com/2005/05/proxy-bypasser.html

If anyone ever needs to bypass their school/business/government filters, something there should do the trick. The one that was at darwin.servehttp.com is down, and probably will remain down.

Date: 2006-03-22 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
How do you use proxies?

Date: 2006-03-22 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
(eeee, the cute kitty icon~)

In this case, these proxies "run" in your browser. So loading up one of them will bring you to a page that asks for a destination URL. Fill that in, and it'll load up the page you want, but masking information as necessary. For example, if work/whatnot blocks yahoo.com to keep you from checking your e-mail, you could go to, say, http://www.blockmy.info/, type in http://www.yahoo.com/ and log into your e-mail to check e-mail there.

Now, this doesn't always work, 'cause stuff get's broken... I tried writing my own some years ago to get through the school blocking services, but it was only partially successful. (either livejournal or gmail remained broken, I forget which.)

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Sometimes, you'll get a proxy as:
proxy.somewhere.net:8080

In that case, it's a proxy server, and that needs to be configured through your internet settings (eh, options of your browser, typically, under advanced options), and add the server (stuff before ":", proxy.somewhere.net in this case) and the port (after ":", 8080 in this case)... I used to run one of these too, but you have to connect to my computer via ssh (secure shell) first......

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Essentially, the basic idea behind them is that instead of:
Your computer -[some destination you're not supposed to go to]-> evil blocking network/firewall/gateway
Your computer <-["HAH, you're not allowed to go there"]- evil blocking gateway

it'd be more like;
Your computer -[proxy[some destination you're not supposed to go to]]-> evil blocking network/firewall/gateway -> proxy -[some destination you're not supposed to go to]-> internet
Your computer <-[requested data]- evil blocking gateway <- proxy <-[data]- internet

Date: 2006-03-22 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Ok, that sorta makes sense.

Still can't get BitTorrent to work either at home or school, but I don't think a proxy'll help.

Date: 2006-03-22 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
Ah, no, proxies will actually make things worse for BitTorrent. XD

Define "work"? As in things download not at all? Or just really slowly?

Date: 2006-03-22 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Not at all. Is v. annoying.

Date: 2006-03-22 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
Huuuuh. What are you using?

Date: 2006-03-22 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Whatcha mean? Am using BitTorrent, and torrents downloaded from IsoHunt.

Date: 2006-03-22 10:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
Hum. Wanna try using Azureus instead? I can actually parse the logs for you and tell you why it's not working... (BitTorrent probably has logs, but I don't know where to tell you to go to find them, nor do I know the interface well enough to help troubleshoot...)

Date: 2006-03-22 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Can I use the same torrents?

Date: 2006-03-22 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
yep, if you downloaded the torrent files and saved them somewhere (mmm, so maybe you'll have a file named "such-and-such.torrent" sitting on your desktop..)

Date: 2006-03-22 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Yup, have those. Going to try it out...

Date: 2006-03-22 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
What's the dif between Windows and Windows 9x?

Date: 2006-03-22 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
mmmm, dunno, what/where are you looking at?

Date: 2006-03-22 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
Mmm, oh, go with the Windows version, and not the Windows 9x version. Unless you're running 95/98, in which case, you want 9x.

(one is for 32-bit operating systems, the other is for 16-bit.)

Date: 2006-03-22 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Ah, hokay. *salutes*

Date: 2006-03-22 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Well, it seems to be downloading, albeit slowly (ETA's at 3 days for a 2 GB file, but at least it's doing something). Danke!

Date: 2006-03-22 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
Heh. Yeah, sounds more or less about right, although it depends on the torrent. Took me about 2 days for 4 GB... What are you downloading, if I might be curious?

And there's a few things that might make it a bit faster... Poking a hole in the firewall on your computer helps, and turning on UPnP (Universal Plug 'n Play) support on your router/gateway also helps. Also, it always starts out a bit slower, 'cause it takes time for people to connect to you...

Date: 2006-03-22 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
I don't really know how to mangle the firewall appropriately, so I don't think I'll be messing with that.

And it's the Stargate movie, though if I can get this to work, I'll be downloading the rest of s9, too. Then I'll probably burn all of it to CD to get it off my hard drive.

Date: 2006-03-23 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
Hehe, okie~

Hm, stargate has a movie? Interesting...

Date: 2006-03-23 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
Movie came first, actually, in 1994 and the series came in '97.

Date: 2006-03-23 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ibneko.livejournal.com
Oooh, ok. Mmm, yay~ Something new has been learn-ed today~

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