Thread: Using a Proxy Tutorial

Using a Proxy Tutorial - Getting the BBC whilst abroad

In some countrys including Thailand it is illegal to use a proxy server, so please stick to whatever the laws maybe in your country you are in, you could be stealing somebodies bandwidth.

There are many reasons to use a proxy and in some countries most proxy servers are banned, ie a proxy server that is basically a website set up to provide you with a IP to hide your activity so it is quite easy for governments or ministries to find and block them, ie domains like hidemyass.com would generally be blocked in most middle east countries to stop the local populace looking at porn sites and getting erotic thoughts.

What an anonymous proxy will do is put you into the country that it is based in, ie if you needed to be in the USA to use your ebay account and you was actually in Thailand then that would be a good reason to use a proxy, another would be if you told your wife you was popping over to Spain for a week to see your aging parents when infact you were going to Pattaya for a weekend of partying with wild Soi Yodsak girls, when you email her your country IP will be in the header, if she knows how to read this she is going to know that your not at your aging parents bedside but infact in Thailand.
Or for many expats a good reason for a working UK proxy is of course being able to view the BBC.

First thing to do so you don't mess up everything is to download a new browser, for this example we shall use opera browser as it is about the best but isn't too popular, you can download it here.

Now you need a proxy, you can do this a few ways, google something along the lines of "Free Anonymous Proxy" or "Proxy Forum" or even go here, or you can download something along the lines of Forum Proxy Leecher, you will also find this on the torrent sites if you aren't willing to pay for it, basically all it does is run through a load of proxy forums and test any proxies that have been submitted and gives you a list of working proxies.

So lets get this proxy working, first off click on "Tools", scroll down and click on "Preferences", the window pictured below will open and you want to click on "Advanced" then click on "Network".

See that button which says "Proxy Servers", well thats the one you want to click, on clicking that you will get this window.

Now rather than use a proxy leecher which is way over the top for most people as you don't need 250,000 working proxies unless your doing something totally illegal and that you will probably spend the rest of your life in jail for I went to Samair.ru, at this moment they have 250 working proxies from all over the world, here's a snapshot, I'm going to take the bottom one and pretend I am in the UK, ie if you want to watch the BBC then this would be a good one to use if it is fast enough.

Now those numbers above consist of the IP and the port number you need to use, just check the "HTTP" box, copy and paste the first 4 blocks of numbers into the first box and then enter the port number into the second box, the colon thingy just dump but the full stops or periods you need in the first 4 blocks of numbers, same as in this photo, then click "OK".

Now to see if it works and is anonymous, there are plenty of places to check your ip and what country they think you maybe in, this one for now is quite good here.

Seems I am in the UK at Leamington Spa at a car phone place, bet they get to watch the BBC


A quick blurb from Forum Proxy Leecher website.

Introduction

Forum Proxy Leecher (FPL) is an intelligent proxy leecher that can extract proxies from various proxy sites and proxy forums even if the proxies are in the attachment.

FPL proxy tester module (Bleach) is specially designed for huge list. It can extract the unique proxies from a huge file and rapidly classify them into 3 levels according to their anonymity.


And a quick blurb from samair.ru

What is Proxy Server?

A proxy server is a machine that sits between the proxy users and the servers that they need access to. When a proxy user requests a certain remote resource using a URL, the proxy server receives this request and fetches the resource to fulfill the client’s request. This process enables the proxy server to store the requested content in a cache. Any new request that asks for information already in the cache no longer needs to be serviced by fetching it from the remote server. Instead, the new request is serviced from the cached data. In typical proxy scenarios, the purpose of a proxy server is to fetch the requested resource from the remote server, return it to the requesting user, and cache it in local drives.
What is an anonymous proxy server?

Anonymous proxy does not transfer the information about the IP-address of its user, and thus effectively hide the information about you and your surfing interests. In addition, some proxies (the so-called elite proxies) can also hide the fact that a user surfing through a proxy server. So there are two types of anonymous proxies (see below).

Anonymous Proxy server does not send HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR variable to host, this improves privacy since your IP address cannot be logged.

Elite proxy (high anonymity) does not send HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR, HTTP_VIA and HTTP_PROXY_CONNECTION variables. Host doesn't even know you are using proxy server and of course it doesn't know your IP address.