unblocking

monkeysuncle13

does anybody know how to unblock myspace from the school?...everytime i try to do it, they find out about it and block it too!...im getting pissed and cant find too many more sites thatl unblock it...can someone please help me!

etully

Install some proxy software on a server out on the Internet like:

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

Then install an SSL cert on the proxy. (You can install a free cert since it doesn't matter to you whether or not the cert is trusted by a CA).

That way, the school won't know what content you're seeing at the proxy.

Or you could spend your time at school doing something other than surfing MySpace.

Piranha

There is a simple solution: Since they don't want people on myspace from school just don't connect to it.

sneakyimp

go etully. neat solution. is the idea that your connect to jmarshall.com is encrypted so firewall has no idea what is on the connection?

etully

jmarshall.com isn't a proxy service. [There are proxy services but as schools figure out that you're using them, they can block access to the proxy].

The solution is to build your own proxy service using the software available at jmarshall but then to install an SSL cert so that all the data back and forth from the school to the proxy is encrypted so that the school doesn't know what you are looking it.

You need to pay money for an SSL cert when you want to use one on an ecommerce site so that it doesn't trigger warning messages in the browser. The warning message is only there to warn you that you might not be connecting to the server that you think you're connecting to. Since the student will know whether or not he's connecting to his own self built proxy server, it doesn't matter whether or not he gets a warning message so he can use a free (untrusted) cert - it's still 100% encrypted, just not trusted by his browser.

Weedpacket

Um, which school is this? I may have an idea....

dalecosp

I hear weed's twisted brain slurping away on that one. Doesn't take too long, actually.

Surely there's an infected machine on the LAN that you can crack & proxy :evilgrin: ... I know I get plenty o'SPAM from .edu and .k12.<yourstate_here>.us sites/netblocks....