Getting through firewall for experts

Hi David,

like many at work this site is now blocked, I believe through URL block not content inspection.
through the the IP no problem. However the issue now is that most linkes on the
website site seem to be hardcoded into the URL and not the Hostname called
If you look at the source of http://67.19.83.27 you will see.
The 'Sign in' top right is fine for example but all the other links are not.
So I have to painfully paste link together to read threads..If I want to post I have to save the
HTML and replace the action field in the form...
v painful.

Can you make this more generic ? Or could you mirror the website ?

Thanks

how about trying tor, breglis?

http://tor.eff.org

it's designed for anonymous browsing in exactly the situation you describe. i've used it very successfully from behind corporate firewalls. biggest problem is that its' popularity has increased greater than the bandwidth available so there are times when it can be pretty slow (think: when america is awake) but i have found is often ok in the morning. must admit i haven't been using it recently as have good and unrestricted access and (not currently!) trying to hide anything.

good luck.

I know precisely what you mean breglis. It's the way Vanilla is. It needs to change. I'll change it when I work out how.

We need telnet access. :o

Hi Guys,

I feel your pain, so I created this just for you.
Here's my quick fix (pardon the pun)....

Download the file from http://www.byteflex.com/downloads/url-ip.exe
Right click on the link and select "save link as" or whatever.

For those that have downloads on ".exe" files blocked, try downloading the alternative:
http://www.byteflex.com/downloads/url-ip.kit
then rename the file to "url-ip.exe".

Run the program and enter 4 things:
Site URL: http://www.londonfgss.com
IP Address: http://67.19.83.27
Proxy Host and Proxy Port are specific to your firewall, you may find these in your browser settings.

When The application starts, it acts like a proxy itself, except it changes incoming data that contains the IP address to the URL and outgoing data containing the URL is changed to the IP address.

Last thing you need to do is change the proxy server settings in your browser to host=127.0.0.1 and port=8987.

This will slow down page access slightly, so you may not want to use it all the time, but other sites will load equally well with it switched on. It's a bit rough around the edges and you can't yet save the settings permanently but at least it should work just now (this post was written with it switched on)

Happy surfing.

eeek eek nerd speak :p

dogsballs eeek eek nerd speak :p

lol

Sorry, there's no easy way to do this. It's gotta work for anyone.

BTW, There's no guarantee, and no liability on my belhalf if you mess things up by using it. It only works on Windoze.

That said, it does nothing permanent WHATSOEVER on your PC. When it's gone, it's gone.

ChrisNW: When it asks for my credit card number.. which one should I give it?

;-)

ChrisNW Sorry, there's no easy way to do this. It's gotta work for anyone.

I'm baking one right into the heart of the forum software.

I started looking into it yesterday. A solution will appear when I figure out how to make Vanilla do backflips.

hippy ChrisNW: When it asks for my credit card number.. which one should I give it?

;-)

rich hippy.
wait, isn't that a contradiction?

Rich people use cash, poor people use credit. ;)

Hi David,
I just downloaded vanilla myself to have a quick look.
I am quite literate in PHP myself from the good o' dot.com
days..
Ideally I imagine something like changing $REMOTE_HOST with $REMOTE_ADDR
somewhere in the layout templates.

breglis Hi David,
I just downloaded vanilla myself to have a quick look.
I am quite literate in PHP myself from the good o' dot.com
days..
Ideally I imagine something like changing $REMOTE_HOST with $REMOTE_ADDR
somewhere in the layout templates.

If you do that, and IP addresses are used for links, then if the IP address ever changes, folks from around the world (who have linked to londonfgss's bootiful content) will end up with a load of broken links.

Sorry to put a downer on it.

just was about to post a question concerning the
$Configuration['BASE_URL'] on the Vanilla Websites
Forum. Their installation is not blocked btw.
I will look into it a bit more tonight if you do not
mind me getting involved

breglis, it doesn't work as a solution:
http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/7174/programming-help-needed-how-to-perform-a-rewrite-of-the-entire-page/

I don't mind at all you looking. What we're looking for is a place within the code that is globally used as the exit point and stands a chance at reading the output buffer, clearing it, changing the read string, writing that to the output buffer and flushing it.

i'm warning u, no more nerd speak, this is supposed to be a 'cool' forum!! back nerds from weanst you came, back i here!!!!!

http://www.londonfgss.com
http://londonfgss.com/
http://www.londonfgss.co.uk
http://londonfgss.co.uk
http://www.fglondon.com
http://fglondon.com
http://www.fglondon.co.uk
http://fglondon.co.uk
http://67.19.83.27

So if your work has blocked one, try another :)

Note, just clicking those won't work... you need to type them into your address bar and then bookmark it.

I AM IN, I AM IN !

brilliant job... how have you done....
you can also wisper me the nerd speak ;-)

yeah, down nerds!!

good work VB!! more exclamations marks?!!

breglis brilliant job... how have you done....

1) Read the output buffer into a variable
2) Clean the buffer
3) Replace all appropriate URL's in the variable
4) Start the buffer with gzip enabled
5) Output the variable
6) Flush the buffer

Oh, and change the forum URL from Absolute to Virtual.
Change the cookie path from domain to blank.
Change the validated return path from Absolute to Virtual.

velocity boy [quote]breglis brilliant job... how have you done....

1) Read the output buffer into a variable
2) Clean the buffer
3) Replace all appropriate URL's in the variable
4) Start the buffer with gzip enabled
5) Output the variable
6) Flush the buffer

Oh, and change the forum URL from Absolute to Virtual.
Change the cookie path from domain to blank.
Change the validated return path from Absolute to Virtual.[/quote]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(enough !!!s dogsballs?)

Good job. Quite an effort. I highly appreciate it and will now continue
to post myself silly in the office.
I just hope that people cut down on swear words to have content inspection stay green

T-H-A-N-K-S !

David, why have you changed your username ?

breglis David vb, why have you changed your username ?

I'd rather not be found via Google were I to be looking for work, applying for a visa, etc. The forum is being indexed heavily by Google, and I think perhaps my real name online is a little unwise.

velocity boy [quote]breglis David vb, why have you changed your username ?

I'd rather not be found via Google were I to be looking for work, applying for a visa, etc. The forum is being indexed heavily by Google, and I think perhaps my real name online is a little unwise.[/quote]

v wise vb, something i don't have to worry about cos noone would trawl through the millions of references to my namesake