Posted by Colin McKinnon on 10/10/28 11:47

Algo wrote:

> I have an apache/php setup. I can access my server at work but their dumb
> blocking blocks so many simple non-offensive sites. Is there a script
> that I can use in my server with php (or anything else) that would be like
> a browser within a browser so I wouldn't be connecting to the sites from
> my
> work browser? My work browser already connected to an internal proxy
> server so setting my browser to a proxy is not an option.

If you're using Microsoft on your desktop then you're pretty much stuffed.
Most proxies allow you to tunnel a connection using CONNECT - it's quite
easy to route traffic through this on a Linux/Unix box, particularly if
you've got root.

VNC might be a better solution - not sure if it tunnels through proxies out
of the box though - but if your home machine is Linux/Unix box, you can run
the Java applet through the webserver.

Beyond that....it'd be fairly straghtforward to write a forwarder with a URL
rewriter on the back trip in PHP, but I'm not aware of anyone having
written one.

HTH

C.

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