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Development Avoiding the school web filter - idea

Discussion in 'Software' started by MrWillyWonka, 13 Jan 2005.

  1. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    I had an idea on avoiding the school web filters. I'm pretty sure the filters work by looking at the meta names, and not the words in the webpage. And websites can be blocked manually.

    My friend has a website, and I was thinking whether it was possible for the website (which isn't blocked - yet?) to mirror a site dynamically, meaning it will mirror the site I request to visit, (that is blocked by the school filters), via the host server in which the website is based in.

    I mean dynamically as in that it will only mirror the site I request, not permenatly mirror the site.

    What sort of coding would I need? The site is in php format. Some help on this idea would be great!
     
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    sheardjr Minimodder

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  3. Bruno_me

    Bruno_me Fake-ad‎min

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    http://proxy.bruno-me.org/

    I think I'll let it loose with the public..

    it runs cgiproxy btw

    edit: I'm seeing lots of referers from this thread. it's now private, so if you want an account pm me or send me an im (see profile)
     
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  4. Murdoc

    Murdoc Gas Mask..ZOMG

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    I used to go to www.altavista.com but google will work just the same, go to trnslate, type in the URL and translate from any language to english, does the job :thumb:

    but Bruno_me's is a much better method!

    'doc
     
  5. Pballer98c

    Pballer98c Minimodder

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    type the IP address into the URL bar :)
    works about 50% of the time.
    if you dont know the sites ip go into command promp and type "ping bit-tech.net"

    have fun
     
  6. laoda

    laoda What's a Dremel?

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    Depending on the filter, it sometimes works to type the IP address in hex or octal.
     
  7. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    Thanks! I'm at home right now, but when I get back to school I'll check out http://proxy.bruno-me.org/ and see if that works!
     
  8. Piratetaco

    Piratetaco is always right

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    unfortunatly bruno and murdoc's links don't beat websense:waah:
     
  9. Dinh

    Dinh What's a Dremel?

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    fatal_error What's a Dremel?

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  11. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    The Bruno-Me bypass has allowed me to access some blocked sites - such as Southamptons University Website, which is blocked for some stupid reason. But other sites are still blocked.

    One site I really want access to is images.google.com , which, yes, you've guessed it, is blocked...
     
  12. Shadow_101

    Shadow_101 Minimodder

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    Even better way is to know the admin user and pass for the filter server....
    [​IMG]
    handy as forms used to be filtered.
     
  13. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    try changing the google TLD to .fr or some other obscure country ;)

    http://images.google.nl
    http://images.google.fi
    http://images.google.gt
     
  14. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    Blocked
    Blocked
    Blocked

    Grrr, I'm on filter 7, which is the lowest filter you can get before no filters. Once, someone looked over the IT Teachers shoulder to find the passwords, but couldn't do it because theres one password to enter the computer account, another to enter the filter account to change filters and another to change individual filters. So sets of passwords...

    Might try tunneling through the net, but somehow that is probably not gonna work :waah: (And the net here is only 56K for the whole school :eyebrow: )
     
  15. ajack

    ajack rox

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    Aye they block *everything* at my school; no images.google.xx, no cmd prompt, access to C:\. It can get annoying after a while, especially when you want to find an image for a legit reason :(

    They did leave the admin username/pass in a plain text file once though - it was a good week.
     
  16. Herbicide

    Herbicide Lurktacular

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    At college, we use opera for getting to Yahoo's Launch (it has different proxy settings for some reason, but they don't seem to work with firefox...)

    Although network-tools IP tracing is handy, one of our tutors is of the opinion that we should be given the ability to access any site we want, mainly because he (and we) know that the firewall isn't as secure as thay (the admins) think it is.

    I'll try Bruno's proxy tomorrow and see what happens.

    - H.
     
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    Does anyone know how to beat websense? The people @ my school got bruno's site blocked.
     
  18. Bruno_me

    Bruno_me Fake-ad‎min

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    on another note, proxy2.bruno-me.org works too ;), and it's hosted by yo-duh_87 [/plug]

    anyway, [grey-area if you should do this] if your school has a unix server with some kind of a web server, perl, and a shell acount for you, you can run your own cgiproxy on that server, using their own server against their own proxy
    [​IMG]
    [/grey-area]
     
  19. kergareth

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    Heheheh, nice idea Bruno, will try when i get to school tommorow :D
     
  20. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    proxy2.bruno-me.org, Guess what, its bllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooccccckkkkkkkkeeeedddd... :waah: :waah: :waah: x ∞²
     

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