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Title: proxy for external world
Post by: SAGE on October 31, 2002, 04:17:34 AM

My office blocks access to some sites, is there a way to make my home server relay web pages for me?  IE I go to my server and then tell it I want to go to google, it grabs the page then displays it for me.   This seems simple enough, has anyone written this?

Sage

Title: Re: proxy for external world
Post by: Bob Todd on October 31, 2002, 05:25:38 PM

I assume your company frowns on the use of websites like silentsurf.com which would save you doing it yourself?

Title: Re: proxy for external world
Post by: Sage on November 01, 2002, 12:53:32 AM

When I go to this page I get a message that it has a 500 error message.  I would expect that my office is doing this.   I mostly want this for the msn(yuck) groups, I cant access alot of the stuff there because of the company proxy.

Sage

Title: Re: proxy for external world
Post by: Nathan Fowler on November 01, 2002, 05:01:51 AM

Hah, my company does that as well and quite often I find the need to circumvent their security measures.  What I've done is used a program called "redir" (Search the forum and you'll find out how to use it and the link) and I redirect it to the local port of SQUID.  I've also instaled squid_auth, so I must pass my login/password to the system to gain access to the proxy (This enables me to avoid being an open proxy).  I then configure my browser to use that proxy server.

I'd set it on a high port like 57600 or something.

Hope this helped,
Nathan