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Free Web Proxy Checker

Martin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:53:17 +0000

A problem with most proxy servers and web proxies is that many tend to stop working after a while. The majority of web proxy servers are rather short lived with only a minority of popular ones that make it past the first six months of their existence. There are many reasons for this with the most prominent ones being shut down by the hosting company or by the webmaster who is not able to monetize the server properly to keep up with the increasing bandwidth demand.

The web proxy checker is a lightweight tool for the Windows operating system that can check various proxy servers. The types that it can check are:

SOCKS4
SOCKS5
HTTP
HTTPS

The user who wants to check proxies can either load them from a text file or paste urls that point to proxies in the interface directly. The free web proxy checker will then parse the urls or text documents line by line and check the proxy servers against the rules configured by the user.

It is possible to check the proxy server against a url (the default is the Gmail url) or a host name and port with a ping always being performed in the beginning to sort out bad proxies immediately that do not respond positively.

The web proxy checker comes with extensive options from selecting random user agents, connection settings, detecting a proxy server’s country of origin or running a distribution web server to logging options and statistics. Some of the options are for advanced users only but users with little to no knowledge should be able to start their first proxy check in under five minutes with the default configuration.

Web Proxy Checker is available for download at the developer’s website. It is compatible with most versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system including Windows 7.

Tags: free web proxy, proxy, proxy server, web proxy, web proxy checker, windows software

Proxy Server Usage To Extend Jailtime In The US

Martin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:10:44 +0000

A proxy server can be used for a number of things. People can use it to overcome censorship in their country, to access contents they could otherwise not access or to remain anonymous while performing research on the Internet. Proxy servers to provide a level of anonymity and privacy that makes them a good choice in many situations. A new federal law in the United States is up for voting at the united States Sentencing Commission that can increase the jail time by up to 25% if a proxy server has been used.

Privacy advocates have already expressed great concern as proxy servers are not only in use by individuals who want to protect their privacy but also by companies and even Internet Service Providers, sometimes without the knowledge of the end user. VPN (Virtual Private Network) would for example be classified as proxy servers under the new legislation. As is the popular Tor client that has been created specifically to counter censorship in the world. Several web browsers like Opera Mini or Opera 10 are also making use of proxy servers to compress data to decrease the time it takes to load websites.

The United States Sentencing Commission will vote on the new legislation on April 15. It is set to take effect on November 1 if is is passing the voting process. You can read up on the EFFs stance here

Tags: eff, opera turbo, privacy, proxy, proxy server, tor, united states, vpn, web proxy

Automatic Web Proxy Server In Firefox

Martin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:30:42 +0000

Web browser users can normally enable or disable web proxy servers in their browsers. There is usually no way to configure a different web proxy server based on the visited website or an option to switch between web proxy use and no proxy use easily. Auto Proxy is a new experimental Firefox add-on that tries to make proxy server usage in the Firefox web browser easier. The add-on provides access to several preconfigured web proxy servers that can be selected in the add-on’s options. It furthermore provides the means to configure websites that should be accessed using the configured web proxy servers.

This has the advantage to be able to exactly configure websites that should be accessed with proxies enabled. Switching proxy servers on and off is therefor a thing of the past after the initial configuration has been completed. Users can subscribe to a preconfigured list of websites that should be accessed using a web proxy server and add their own websites in the list. It is currently not possible to assign web proxy servers to specific sites but this is mentioned as a feature to come on the developer’s homepage.

It is currently only possible to add websites to the Firefox add-on and select either a preconfigured web proxy server or add a custom proxy that should be used to access those websites.

The preconfiogured web proxy servers have not been working 100% perfectly at the time of testing. The prospect is however excellent. Definitely a Firefox add-on to look out for.

Tags: firefox, firefox proxy, firefox proxy server, firefox-add on, firefox-extensions, proxy server, web proxy, web proxy server

Barebone Web Surfing With Finch

Martin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:40:37 +0000

We have featured some articles in the past that explained how to reduce the bandwidth usage while surfing the Internet which is important for users who have to cope with a monthly bandwidth limit and those who are stuck with slow Internet connections. (Reduce Opera Bandwidth Usage and Use The Opera Mini Browser On A PC are two that come to mind)

Finch tries to achieve a similar goal. The web service acts pretty much like a web proxy with the difference that bandwidth reduction and not anonymity is the top priority. Finch will not load CSS files, no images and no scripts. Stripping a website of most of its contents reduces its size tremendously. The size of the New York Times homepage is reduced by 94% when using Finch.

This method has some serious disadvantages though. Many websites become unusable. Finch does not support scripts which are required by some to function properly. Cookies are not supported as well which meaning logins won’t function properly as well.

Finch works best on static websites or those that function without scripts and cookies. Running the website through Finch will reduce the bandwidth that is transferred which means a speed gain and reduction of the monthly transfer rate. It’s on the other hand nothing for users who spend most of their time on social sites.

Tags: bandwidth, connection speed, finch, internet, internet speed, low bandwidth, proxy, transfer rate, web proxy

Web Proxy Server List

Martin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:14:51 +0000

Keeping up with web proxy servers on the Internet can be a time consuming task. Proxies come and go that quickly that one could say it is nearly impossible to keep up unless someone would use scripts to check the web proxies automatically. The web proxy server list posted on Ghacks dates back two years and the main reason it was not updated is the fact that updating the servers would have to be done dynamically to provide visitors with a working list of proxy servers.

That is probably the same line of thought that the developer of Prime Proxies had when he created his website. The website publishes an up to date list of working web proxy servers which are checked regularly so that the chance of encountering a non working proxy server is slim.

Proxies are divided into three categories that are named after the proxy script that is being used on the proxy websites. The three main scripts are PHP Proxy, CGI Proxy and Glyph. Some proxy scripts work better on specific websites than others and it comes down to finding the web proxy server script that displays the favorite websites properly.

The Prime Proxies database contains a list of more than 2300 working and 5000 dead proxy servers. That should be enough for everyone to find a web proxy server that is working and not banned at the location that you are accessing the Internet.

Tags: anonymity, internet, privacy, proxy list, proxy server, web proxies, web proxy, web proxy server

Select a country for your proxy

Martin — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:53:15 +0000

Finally a innovative proxy website. Web Proxies are all alike, mostly. They use the same four of five proxy scripts that are available, may have a different design and tend to disappear after 1-12 months. Worldproxy added an interesting new feature to it’s proxy: Country selection. Many multimedia services, like streaming Internet radio or video, are limited to users of a specific country by the service provider and proxies are one of the ways to beat the protection to be able to view the contents of the website from a country that is normally not allowed to view them.

Worldproxy (via Technospot) makes use of that by offering its visitors a country based proxy map. Currently only three countries are available: United States, Canada and Great Britain. The United States proxy is currently not working, the other two are working fine and it is probably just a glitch that the US proxy is not working right now.

Proxy selection by country is unfortunately the only new aspect of that proxy website. It does come with a toolbar that can be used to quickly switch between different country proxies but I normally do not install toolbars because they tend to take away screen space.

Users can suggest new countries which means that it is likely that other countries will be added to the map in future updates. The proxy obviously can be used for different things as well. It is for instance possible to check ads that are running on your website when a visitor of a certain country visits it.

Tags: internet, proxy, proxy list, proxy sites, Security, web proxy

Web Proxy

Martin — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:59:35 +0000

A web proxy is becoming more and more important in today’s internet. Schools and Companys tend to block sites pretty quickly nowadays.It is especially irritating when the ban is directed towards just a few websites and not every website in that category. A Web Proxy might be able to sneak past this policies and display the site in your browser even though it is banned in the network.

How does a web proxy work ?

A network bans a website either by its IP, its name or part of its name. A web proxy makes only shows its own address to the network and not the actual destination of the user. The admin of the network will think everything is fine and you are free to reach the site that is banned. The only thing that might happen is that the admin is banning the web proxy as well, but this is not a big deal either. Hundreds of web proxys exist, just switch to a new one and you are ready to visit the banned site again.

Setup your own Web Proxy:

Let us assume that all proxy websites have been banned in your network, you can´t find a single web proxy that is still working. Your best choice is to create your own web proxy at an address that only you know. All you need is the php web proxy proxy and some webspace with php to upload it to. Search google for free webspace php and you should find some hosts that allow you to use php and upload your web proxy to them.

You can alternativly use a cgi web proxy which needs a webspace with cgi enabled.
Web Proxy List:

Please not that the list does not display if the webproxy is able to handle scripts, I did not find a reliable way to make a test for all languages out there, therefor this has not been added to the list. I also removed websites that loaded slowly, displayed errors or forced you to click on an ad before you could use the service.

It is most likely that the name “proxy” might have been banned as well, try using web proxys that do not have proxy i their url, this might help.

Web Proxy

If none of the above work in your special case try my last resort, blockstop. It utilities the coral cdn network and uses a different method to access sites.

Tags: proxy, proxy list, web proxy

Two additional Google Proxys

Martin — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:59:43 +0000

You might have read about the google translate proxy that makes it possible for some to access blocked websites because the administrator did not think of blocking the translate function of google as well. What most people don´t know is that Google offers at least two additional services that can be used as a web proxy to bypass restrictions imposed upon you by your system administrator.

There is no way I can tell if this actually works in your case or if your clever admin managed to add the following two urls to the list of blocked websites. Both seem to be services for mobile phones and PDAs which means that the screen output does not look pretty but is fully functional. Most graphics are missing as well. The first one can be reached at http://www.google.com/xhtml , the second at http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://

You have to append the url for the second service after the http:// for example ..n?u=http://www.ghacks.net/

Both services append the url and the search results to the url which means that google.com is again working as a proxy. Let me know if this works out for your.

Tags: Google, google proxy, web proxy

250 web proxies

Martin — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:55:36 +0000

Lots of people are demanding more proxy sites because many have already been banned by their school or workplace. It´s not easy to find new ones but maybe the list from econsulting might help you. They have a list of 250 web proxies that might not be banned. I think it´s worth a try if you are that desperate.

Another method would still be to setup your own proxy server, which means more work but a good chance that you are able to surf your beloved sites again. You could also try and setup a normal http proxy in your browsers settings if those are not disabled from your systems administrator.

Tags: proxies, proxy, proxy list, web proxy

Proxy Sites

Martin — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:40:13 +0000

I know that I have not been updating the proxy list for a while and I promise to do it in the near future. For now, I post a list of new and relatively unknown proxy sites that should work for most people. If they are not working I suggest you setup a proxy on your own at a free domain hosting service that allows php or cgi. You should probably rename the files accordingly because it could be that the proxy scripts per se have been banned and not only the domains / ips that host the scripts.

An extensive list of web proxies can be found by following the link to my latest post about web proxies.

Proxy 01
Proxy 02
Proxy 03
Proxy 04
Proxy 05

Tags: proxy, proxy list, web proxy

A new Proxylist

Martin — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:25:48 +0000

I found a new list of proxy sites, 300 in total. Should be something for everyone and I suppose you find some that work in your environment. Head over to proxylist.wordpress.com to check them out.

Tags: proxy, web proxy

Surfing Anonymously

Martin — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:10:48 +0000

TekMonkey.org published a good article on how to surf anonymously. They describe three ways of doing so: 1. Using a web based proxy ; 2. Http Proxy with browser ; 3. Using Tor.

Using a web based proxy is the easiest and fastest way to surf temporarily anonymously. Still, its not really comfortable and many web proxies don´t support all types of scripts. Nevertheless a good choice if you want a quick result. You can take a look at my web proxy list for January 2006 or this newer web proxy list if you are looking for anonymous ones.

The second option involves scanning for http proxies and adding them to your browsers network settings. This means more work and knowledge on the clients site but most of the time better and more permanent results. You still should check if the proxy is still anonymous from time to time.

Last but not least there is Tor, a free software product by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Using Tor means that your connection is routed to several secure encrypted Tor servers, making it almost impossible for the target site to find out about you.

Tags: anon, anonymous, proxy, tor, web proxy

Web Proxy List January 2006

Martin — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:03:21 +0000

Many of you told me that I should create a new list of websites that are running web proxys. Today I finally had the time to compile this new list, hope everyone is satisfied with the result.

Maybe it´s a good start to explain why someone would need a web proxy ( or a proxy ). Some countries, for example china, Iran and Germany, ban certain websites and you can´t view them using your normal internet connection. A proxy on the other hand could be able to display the website correctly and you receive all the information you want to access.

Another possible scenario is that your school or company blocks sites like ebay or your mail account and you desperately need to access it. A web proxy could help in this case too.

A third and final example would be that you don´t want to show your real ip to a website that you are visiting. You work for company A and use the companies internet connection to browse the website of company B, it´s sometimes better to not reveal where you come from.

You can also watch and download videos from Google Video if you are using a web proxy from a country that is allowed to view and download them.

Lets start with the list. I decided to display the following information:

Name: pretty obvious, isn´t it ?
Anonymous: If the proxy spills your ip or not.
Popups: Normal Advertisement is not that annoying, but popup ads are.

Please not that the list does not display if the web proxy is able to handle scripts, I did not find a reliable way to make a test for all languages out there, therefor this has not been added to the list. I also removed websites that loaded slowly, displayed errors or forced you to click on an ad before you could use the service.

Web Proxy List January 2006

Name	Anonymous	Popups
3proxy.com	yes	no
3proxy.org	yes	no
45percent.com	yes	no
75i.net	yes	no
anonproxy.info	yes	no
anonymouse.org	yes	no
anonymousindex.com	yes	no
anonymoussurf.be	yes	no
anonymousurfing.info	yes	no
anonypost.com	yes	no
anti-boredom.co.uk	yes	no
aproxysite.com	yes	no
arnit.net	yes	no
attackcensorship.com	yes	no
betaproxy.com	yes	no
boredatschool.net	yes	no
browseatschool.net	yes	no
bypassbrowser.com	yes	no
bypassit.be	yes	no
cecid.com	yes	no
cleverproxy.com	yes	no
clickcop.com	yes	no
collegeproxy.com	yes	no
computersteroids.com	yes	no
concealme.com	yes	no
cpr0x.com	yes	no
cyberbite.com	yes	no
darkproxy.com	yes	no
demonproxy.com	yes	no
desireproxy.com	yes	no
directproxy.com	yes	no
dnbroker.us	yes	no
dzzt.com	yes	no
ebypass.org	yes	no
fastopener.com	yes	no
fireprox.com	yes	no
flyproxy.com	yes	no
free-proxy.info	yes	no
freeinternetproxy.com	yes	no
freeproxy.ca	yes	no
freeproxy01.com	yes	no
freeproxysurf.info	yes	no
fsurf.com	yes	no
fullysickproxy.com	yes	no
game678.com	yes	no
gamecrib.net	yes	no
ghostclick.com	yes	no
gouc.fr	yes	no
handsoffmycomputer.com	yes	no
hideip.be	yes	no
hideyour.info	yes	no
hidingyou.com	yes	no
hostwindsor.com	yes	no
httproxy.com	yes	no
hujiko.com	yes	no
idoxy.com	yes	no
ieproxy.com	yes	no
ipzap.com	yes	no
lightningproxy.com	yes	no
liteproxy.com	yes	no
mirkoreich.de	yes	no
ninjaproxy.com	yes	no
pc-portal.at	yes	no
mrproxy.com	yes	no
myfreeproxy.com	yes	no
myproxysurfer.com	yes	no
mysticproxy.com	yes	no
netsack.net	yes	no
networktechs.com	yes	no
newproxy.be	yes	no
nopimps.com	yes	no
pagewash.com	yes	no
peoplesproxy.com	yes	no
perlproxy.com	yes	no
phproxy.org	yes	no
poxy.us.to	yes	no
pr0xy.org	yes	no
projectbypass.com	yes	no
proxifree.com	yes	no
proxify.co.uk	yes	no
proxify.com	yes	no
proxify.info	yes	no
proxy-sock.com	yes	no
proxycraze.com	yes	no
proxydrop.net	yes	no
proxydrop.org	yes	no
proxyfoxy.com	yes	no
proxygasp.com	yes	no
proxyguy.com	yes	no
proxyhero.com	yes	no
proxyip.org	yes	no
proxylord.com	yes	no
proxyking.net	yes	no
proxymod.com	yes	no
proxymouse.com	yes	no
proxypi.com	yes	no
proxypowered.com	yes	no
proxyprince.com	yes	no
proxyserver7.com	yes	no
proxysnail.com	yes	no
proxysnow.com	yes	no
proxyspy.com	yes	no
proxytastic.com	yes	no
proxyz.be	yes	no
pureprivacy.com	yes	no
rapidproxy.com	yes	no
roachhost.com	yes	no
satanproxy.com	yes	no
scriptdownloads.com	yes	no
secretbrowse.com	yes	no
shadowsurf.com	yes	no
smartproxy.net	yes	no
sneak3.po.gs	yes	no
sonicpig.com	yes	no
spiderproxy.com	yes	no
stoptheblock.com	yes	no
strongproxy.com	yes	no
studentproxy.com	yes	no
stupidcensorship.com	yes	no
surf-anon.com	yes	no
surfanonym.de	yes	no
surfnameless.com	yes	no
switchproxy.com	yes	no
thecabletown.com	yes	no
thecgiproxy.com	yes	no
thestrongestlinks.com	yes	no
thatproxy.com	yes	no
theproxy.be	yes	no
theproxy.info	yes	no
torify.com	yes	no
totalupload.com	yes	no
umzo.com	yes	no
unblockthis.com	yes	no
unipeak.com	yes	no
urlencoded.com	yes	no
useproxy.net	yes	no
vproxy.be	yes	no
vrijsurfen.nl	yes	no
vtunnel.com	yes	no
w3privacy.com	yes	no
wantproxy.com	yes	no
websiteguru.com	yes	no
worldwideproxy.com	yes	no
yourfreeproxy.com	yes	no
zombieinvasion.info	yes	no

Tags: proxy, proxy list, web proxy

Web Proxy List November 2005

Martin — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:58:37 +0000

Its always a good idea to have some web proxies at hand. You can use them to hide your own ip when you navigate to a site that should not have your IP in their logs. You can use them to
bypass web restrictions / censorship from schools, universities and business and also use them if your country is one of those that likes to prevent its people from collection information on their own.

The proxylist is divided into the following categories: Secure means its possible to use a SSL with this web proxy, normal means no SSL but does not spill your ip of course. The others are pretty self explanatory, if you have questions feel free to ask and I will answer them asap.

I will compile a new list each month, check back regularly if you are looking for additional webproxies. Feel free to add proxies that you know of in the comments, they will be included with the next update

Secure (Https):

towel.greyfyre.info
www.domainuniverzum.com
ww.dongtaiwang.com
www1.dongtaiwang.com
www2.dongtaiwang.com
www3.dongtaiwang.com
www1.ft888.net
www2.ft888.net
www3.ft888.net
www.secure-tunnel.com
www.stday.com

Http Web Proxy List:

annie.ne.jp
barracuda.tx.envision7.com
browsesecurely.com
darwin.servehttp.com
floon.com
freedomdown.net
geoepker.hu
ieproxy.com
ipzap.com
pbkill.com
poxy.us.to
proxy.computersteroids.com
shadowclick.com
sneakysurf.com
starkravingmad.org
strongproxy.com
www.arnit.net
www.brainflux.org
www.chemikaze.com
www.clickcop.com
www.coveredtracks.com
www.e-ronin.com
www.groothuijsen.nl
www.hidemyass.com
www.ipent.com
www.privatizer.net
www.proxyweb.net
www.q2r.net
www.secure-tunnel.com
www.simpleproxy.com
www.space.net.au
www.spiderproxy.com
www.techtakeover.com
www.the-cloak.com
www.thestrongestlinks.com
urlencoded.com
www.vtunnel.com

No Input box by default:

207.44.202.102:81
heshan18.com
www.dongtaiwang.com
www.gouc.fr

No Images:

www.floon.com

With ads:

3proxy.com
4proxy.com
70.84.193.226
cgi-proxy.net
freeproxy.us
greenrabbit.org
hujiko.com
letsproxy.com
proxy.peoplesproxy.com
projectbypass.com
proxy.pureprivacy.com
proxy.torify.com
proxify.co.uk
proxify.com
proxify.net
proxify.org
proxify.us
proxy.anonypost.com
proxy.cecid.com
proxy.mywebtunnel.com
proxy.perlproxy.com
proxy.switchproxy.com
proxy.thewebtunnel.com
proxy7.com
riss.x05host.com
themaser.a-cro.net
w3privacy.com
webwarper.net
worldwideproxy.com
www.afreeproxy.com
www.ajitk.com
www.betaproxy.com
www.boredatschool.net
www.browseany.com
www.browseatwork.com
www.bywhat.com
www.chronicpulse.net
www.dzzt.com
www.easyproxy.org
www.fireprox.com
www.free-proxy.info
www.freeproxyserver.net
www.goproxing.com
www.handsoffmycomputer.com
www.j4s0nn.com
www.myfreeproxy.be
www.nethider.com
www.netsack.net
www.netshaq.com
www.nomorelimits.net
www.nopath.com
www.pc-portal.at
www.proxy-surf.com
www.proxychoice.com
www.proxifree.com
www.proxyking.net
www.proxymouse.com
www.proxypowered.com
www.proxysnail.com
www.proxytastic.com
www.safeforwork.net
www.safesurfers.net
www.spysurfing.com
www.stupidcensorship.com
www.usbm.de
www.vbrowse.com
www.vpntunnel.net
www.xanproxy.be
www.yourfreeproxy.com
www.zhaodaola.org

my thanks to Krypt0ni4n and an anonymous poster, basic list taken from kryptonian-x.blogspot.com and modified by myself.

Tags: proxies, proxy list, web proxy

Free online web proxy

Martin — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:11:22 +0000

Just a quick news this time. A new free online proxy site opened up its gate. You can use it to bypass restrictions at school or work for example. (e.g. filtered sites) Unfortunatly its named Hide my ass which might be banned as well from work or school.

Try it out and see for yourself: hidemyass.com

Technorati Tags: proxy, filter

Tags: online proxy, proxy, proxy list, web proxy

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