turning your computer into a private proxy

[TheGeek]

hi,

Does anyone know how i can turn my computer into a private proxy that i can use from school or work?

I have win xp and dsl. I don't wany to pay to host a proxy can i use a free host?

thanks

[JesuBungle]

I remember there being a remote access function in XP, though I am not sure how to use it. And it may only be in XP Professional. But I'm sure there's free programs out there to do a similar thing.

[encipher]

look up burp proxy. Also, there was a small <400k proxy app which i wrote for my personal use. If you dont find what you need pm me and I can send you the app.

[bascule]

http://tor.eff.org

[TheGeek]

thanks for replying guys

 

after reading some of the articles i figured out that i was talking about a cgi proxy.

 

Is there any easy softwares for making cgi proxies?

[Aeternus]

http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/

 

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[1veedo]

PHProxie is kind of cool.

[TheGeek]

thanks 1veedo.

 

phproxy was perfect. Exactly what i was looking for.

 

works fine and i also found a free host which i works on

 

thanks to everyone for their help

[TheGeek]

Currently I'm using ripway.com to host my site. I love ripway, it works great (compatible with php) and is unblocked from work and school. It's also free and there are no ads.

 

The only problem i have with ripway is that they only allow 25MB of daily downloads. That may seem enough but for a proxy that is nothing. I need more.

 

Does anyone know of any free host with the following specifications:

1. it has to be free

2. it needs to support hp

3. i don't care how much space i get but i need atleast 50MB of daily downloads

 

if you know of such a host please let me know

 

thanks

[Klaynos]

try tripod.co.uk

[TheGeek]

i always thought that tripod came with ads ???

[Klaynos]

You'll be very lucky to find one that doesn't

 

All the ones I knew of have closed or turned to adds...

 

You also didn't say you didn't want adds :s

[TheGeek]

sorry i forgot to say so.

I ususally don't mind ads but when you have a proxy and there are forced ads, the ads comeup on everypage you go to and it gets really annoying.

 

thanks for your help

[1veedo]

There are servers out there already, just google phproxy. As a matter of fact, there are regular proxies out there already. Lots of them.

[TheGeek]

I know that there are servers that do that but 99.9% are blocked.

 

One quick question:

If i am hosting an image on my server, is there any way for me to see what ip's saw that image and when they saw it?

[1veedo]

Heh I did something like that w/ my phproxy. I set it up (also) to be able to be turned on and off cause people from Iran were using it to watch porn and it was slowing down my computer. I (like you) just wanted to use it from school (work, same difference).

 

I removed that stuff cause you probably don't need to use it. It's just a simple if statement if you want to make that. It could possibly save space/bandwidth on your server though. Turn it on when you want to use it and off anytime else.

<?php

$f2 = fopen('llog.html', 'a');

fwrite ($f2, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."<br>");

//here you want to change it to show the requested address or whatever you want to be logged,  I was just interested in the client to see what countries people were using it from.

Be warned the log gets really big. Not only does it record websites but it gets images, java, and whatever the web browser asks for. You could maybe change it to check extensions -- if it's .gif, .jpeg, and whatever, it doesn't log it.

 

Simple though, really. Doesn't take a genius to write to a file.

 

edit --

forgot to mention that web servers log all connections and most commercial or public servers have a place where you can view the log for your particular account.

 

/var/log/apache2/access.log

 

Some have awstats and other things but what you're looking for is something called the "raw access log" which would be that file. When they get too big they add numbers after it. access.log.1, etc. so you might get some sort of archive.

[TheGeek]

thanks for your help!

I was kinda off topic and let me clearify what i want to do. I want to host an image that will only be opened one or two times. I will host this image on my free php server. Both the times that the image is accessed i want to record when the image was accessed and who accessed it.(ip) This is completely diffrent from the proxy. For the proxy i think there are already logs that i can go back to.

 

The second question i had was if i make a web page using dreamweaver and save it as a html, is there any way to look at the properties of the page and see who the dreamweaver was registered to. I am basically asking if dreamweaver leaves info that can be used to track back the page maker?

 

i know both of these are not related to the proxy but don't want to start a bunch of threads that will only have a couple responses

thanks

[Klaynos]

Do you have any access to the server logs?

 

if not you can use a php script that makes a note of the viewing IP, opens the file and outputs the file... asif the script itself was an image.

[AAK]

What I did last year with the same goal in mind as you, was install apache on my home computer (more specifically PHP Triad which included apache and some other useful things), and installed a CGI-Proxy ( http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ ). Everything worked perfectly.

[TheGeek]

If i want to record the viewing of images where do i add the php script?

 

Let say i have a direct link such as http://www.mydomain.com/image.gif and the viewer goes to the image with the direct link, how do i record the user info?

[1veedo]

There's a way to do this. I've never coded immages w/ php but lots of images you find online are actually php extentions. For instance custom avatars are linked scienceforums.net/forums/image.php?u=xxxx&dateline=xxxxxxxxxx. Sometimes spyware and whatnot is imbeded this way as "third party" cookies in advertisements.

 

Try php.net:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

 

Just add the code I have above before your immage display script so it logs the IP somwhere. You can also just check the raw access logs and do a find for your immage.

 

As for dreamweaver, just check the html. Open the file with a text editor, on Windows use notepad.

[TheGeek]

my only question is if i were to give the direct link of image to the visitor will it still log it?

[keelanz]

hi,

Does anyone know how i can turn my computer into a private proxy that i can use from school or work?

I have win xp and dsl. I don't wany to pay to host a proxy can i use a free host?

thanks

 

linux doesnt have fences or walls so it doesnt need windows or gates

[shazi]

What is difference between IPv4 and IPv6. Why IPv6 was developed when there

IPv4 was already available and implemented

 

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