Guide to Internet Proxies

[flowerpot]

The idea of a proxy is to hide the identity of a person attempting to access the resource through the proxy, be that a website or web server of various kinds. The person wishing to hide their identity uses the proxy as a middle-man to for example, view a website without the website owner being able to identify the user by their ISP assigned IP Address. The user will appear to be coming from the IP of the proxy and not the true IP of the user.

 

 

Proxies can be used to circumvent access control to a website where a user might not be permitted to visit or has in the case of a web forum been banned by IP Address and still needs to access the site. Essentially a proxy would render the user anonymous in the best case scenario.

 

user _____________...proxy...______________website

64.3.45.66 23.2.35.7 www.myspice.com

 

In the illustration above, the user would appear to be coming from 23.2.35.7 according to the owner and/or web logs. However the web log of the proxy server would show the successfull connection attempts from 64.3.45.66 so that if www.myspice.com were to contact the owner of the proxy and ask/force him to reveal the ip address of the user who attempted to access www.myspice.com using the proxy as an intermediate, your identity would be compromised.

 

 

Types of Proxies

 

Squid Proxy

 

The most popular Open source proxy server is Squid proxy. By default Squid runs on port 3128. The access logs are held in the access.log file. The default implementation of squid is by default very restrictive allowing no outside connection attempts. The squid proxy must be configured with at very least the following in the squid.conf file:

acl my_network 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0

http_access allow my_network

 

The service must be reloaded and allowed by any firewall before any connections can be made to the service. So a freshly installed Squid daemon would not be usable. Thus misconfigured Squid proxies are usually sought after and scanned for.

To use a squid proxy, one must configure the web browser to utilize the proxy for any http connection requests. This is done by manually adding the IP Address and port number into your web browsers connection settings through the menu at the top of your browser. note. will add detailed instructions.

____Firefox:

 

1. Right click on the shortcut in start menu and select Mozilla Firefox Options.

2. Click on the Advanced category.

3. Click on Network tab.

4. Click Settings under Connection.

5. Check Manual proxy configuration.

6. Enter proxy server IP address and port number.

7. If you want, check the box that says Use this proxy server for all protocols.

 

____Internet Explorer:

 

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Select Tools from the menu bar of your Internet Explorer window.

3. Select Internet Options.

4. Select the Connections Tab.

5. Select LAN Settings.

6. Place a checkmark in the two tick boxes under Proxy Server (the Address and Port edit boxes will now turn white and be editable).

7. Enter your Proxy server name and the port number in their respective edit boxes.

8. Click on OK and OK until all the windows have closed.

9. Close and re-open your Internet Explorer and you should be good to go!

 

CGI proxy

 

Very popular, quick and easy, just visit the webpage of the cgi proxy and enter into the box the URL of the website you would like to visit. The CGI proxy will divert you through, using itself as the originating IP Address. Connection attempts would appear to come from the IP Address of the CGI proxy. These proxies are abundant, links to which will be given at the end of this talk. You will easily be able to appear as if you are coming from Saudi Arabia when you are actually in London(random town), thus removing all restrictions based on IP. This will not however remove any username bans as that is on a username basis, not IP, so a new username might be required. CGI proxies can also remove unwanted ads and scripts from the mix of the website you wish to visit having the advantage of generally less advert spam. A CGI proxy will be slower than your usual connection because you are sharing the connection with all the other users going through the proxy, or for other technical reasons.

 

Blacklists exist for cgi proxies, often implemented in popular web forum software such as ipb, vbulletin, phpbb and others, making the need for 'fresh' proxies apparent.

 

Resources

 

CGI PROXIES

 

The CGI proxy authority:

 

h88p://www.proxy.org

 

Visit the site, enter your desired URL into the box, select your choice of proxy from the list, and click OK. You will be sent through the proxy of your choice to the web page of your choice.

 

h88p://www.daveproxy.co.uk

 

Love this site, made possible by donation, same as above just enter the URL in the box and go. All your requests will be made through the daveproxy!

 

SQUID and other manually set proxies

 

h88p://www.samair.ru/proxy/

h88p://proxy-list.org/en/index.php

 

 

You will take a proxy from the lists above and enter it using the instructions above. From then on all requests are forwarded through the proxy. Note, due to the fact that misconfigured proxies are essentially abused proxies, they often go down very quickly and the need for fresh proxies is paramount. On these web pages are often indications of uptime and such stats. Blacklists are also continually updated.

 

 

NOTE:

Do not check your webmail through a proxy or do your banking through a proxy. These proxies CAN view all unencrypted data which flows through them, the data can be stored for mining, impersonation etc. Use a proxy for what it is, a novel way to hide your IP on this jungle of an intarwebnet.

 

 

thread notes:

 

will add irc proxies and socks and more definitions

[texas pete]

Good work!

 

ideal for watching youtube clips then