gHacks technology news » coral cdn http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Blockstop Coral CDN Frontendhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/18/blockstop-coral-cdn-frontend/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/18/blockstop-coral-cdn-frontend/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:19:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/18/blockstop-coral-cdn-frontend/ I´ve written a large article about Coral CDN just a few days ago. Here is a short introduction for those who might have missed this article. Coral CDN caches websites, basically every website that one of its users opens for the first time. After caching this website is available for all other users of the network and is accessible by appending nyud.net:8080 to the url. Now, in this article I mentioned a firefox extension which appends the nyud.net:8080 extension automatically to your links but what about the people who may not use firefox ?

If firefox is banned or not available like in my office you are stuck with appending the chars manually. That´s what I thought. A avid reader of my blog mentioned the blockstop coral cdn frontend to me and it is working nicely. It reminds me a lot of those web proxy sites. Enter a url, click get url and a blockstop frame appears above the sites content of the url that you want to visit.

This is not a proxy of course but a way to access cached pages through a web frontend without installing software on your computer or entering the url and extension manually. I will try this one when I´am at work today. (we only have Internet Explorer and many websites are locked out from the network) Please let me know if this is working for your special case and if you witness any limitations or drawbacks.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/18/blockstop-coral-cdn-frontend/feed/ 2 Website blocked or slow ? Try Coral Cdnhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/12/website-blocked-or-slow-try-coral-cdn/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/12/website-blocked-or-slow-try-coral-cdn/#comments Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:14:16 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/12/website-blocked-or-slow-try-coral-cdn/ Coral CDN (content distribution network) might be the solution if you can´t reach a website because it is either blocked by an administrator, slow or even completely unreachable. Filters and restrictions become more common on the Internet. Schools and workplaces blocking access to unwanted sites and networks is a prime example. I can understand that a company does not want you to surf at websites like Ebay during work time but what about breaks ? What if you are in school and some class did not take place and you would like to check your mail accounts ?

Corel CDN caches websites thus making them available even though the original website might be off line or blocked. To access a website you simply append .nyud.net:8080 to the url. For ebay.com it would be therefor: http://www.ebay.com.nyud.net:8080

You unfortunately have to append this manually to every url you want to reach. That is, unless you are using firefox. Coral CDN offers a firefox extension which allows you to either Coralize this page or Coralize this link which means that you do not have to append .nyud.net:8080 manually to the url.

Finally they also offer a bookmarklet which should be working with Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Safari as well. Drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks and use it from there.

Please note that I can´t guarantee that you will be able to view the cached page and that this probably does not work with dynamic or personalized pages. (Email, Ebay account)

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