Rediff has announced a new product that is promising to be an alternative. It is basically an email service that can send back html emails to the user. The user initiates the process in his email client by sending a specifically crafted email to the WebinMail service which will render the requested webpage and send it back to the email account as a html email.

WebinMail states that the service is currently only working in Microsoft Outlook or Blackberry devices but it did work fine in Mozilla Thunderbird as well and might work fine in most email clients supporting html messages.

All that needs to be done to initiate the connection is to send an email to browse@webinmail.com with an url in the subject line (e.g. www.ghacks.net)

The process is not in realtime obviously which is also the greatest flaw of it. It took a few minutes before the html email arrived in the inbox. This is excellent for viewing specific pages on a website but not the prime solution for surfing many pages of blocked websites.

The subject line can contain other parameters as well, they are:

• google:query
• googleimg:query
• rediff:query

All three will perform a search for the query entered by the user and return the results in a html mail.

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There are actually several ways to replace a url with a encrypted one. The result in the end will be the same but it might be possible to bypass the ban using the encrypted url. A fine tool that displays all variants of encrypted urls is url encryptor. Just enter a url that you want to visit and it displays all encrypted forms (and others) on its page. You can then try and access the website that is banned using those urls and you will be surprised how often this actually works.

I think an example would be fine. Let us take myspace.com for example. If myspace is banned you could use the following urls to access it anyway:

• Base64 (works in Firefox and Opera)
• Hex (works in IE and Opera)
• IP (works in Firefox, IE and Opera)
• Dword (works in Firefox, IE and Opera)
• Octal (works in Firefox, IE and Opera)
• HexDec (works in Firefox and IE)
• Mixed 1 (works in Firefox and IE)
• Mixed 2 (works in IE and Opera)

Another method that could work would be to access http://myspace.com/ instead of http://www.myspace.com/

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