Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Proxy Templates

Proxy Templates
By Naren Verma


Proxies let the users surf the website from blocked location like a school, university library or an organization. They keep you safe and secure by maintaining your privacy. In simple words, the proxy servers hide your identity and access blocked websites on your behalf. On the web network, there are a lot of websites which offer features like file-sharing, instant messaging or leaving comments for the user's profile, and a lot of schools and organizations have blocked such websites to be accessed from their locations to restrict people from logging in to these websites.


The development of proxy servers has a technological advance over these restrictions. These proxies let you access websites from restricted locations and are a source to bypass secure sites from blocked locations, as they have the ability to bypass the network firewalls and filters. These proxy servers enable the users to surf the internet from blocked servers and are compatible to surf through sites which have audio and video streaming platforms like Youtube.


Another advantage of a proxy server is that the chance of getting virus, spyware and other malicious scripts is reduced, and as a result your computer becomes a safer and reliable machine.
A lot of web sites offer the proxy servers and most of them provide proxy templates as well. Designing a proxy template is not an easy task. Considering this fact, a lot of websites offer pre-designed proxy templates for you. These proxy templates can be downloaded and are simple and easy to use.


The downloaded proxy templates are free of cost, but most of the host websites may require you to back-link to their websites. PHP and CGI proxy templates are also available on such websites. The downloaded files for the proxy templates and themes comprise of the necessary designing and setup files and you can customize your website as per your requirement. Normally, the downloaded files are in zip format and you may need to extract the graphic files, images, fonts, Photoshop files and the script files. To avoid any misuse of the script files, the configuration files are available in the download which lets you customize the template, as you may require, and edit the text files like the Meta keywords, description and titles.


The PHP proxy and the CGI proxy provided are updated versions and are fully up-to date with the required technology. The host websites offering these proxy templates may allow you to put a link to download the templates on your website too based on the condition that the site is linked back to the host website.


Naren Verma is a webmaster who owns various proxy websites. If you enjoyed this article, you may like to check his proxy website Proxy Templates to enjoy the web freedom in which he strongly believes.


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Why Not to Start Using CGI Proxy Sites

Why Not to Start Using CGI Proxy Sites?
By Mike Paul


CGI Proxy sites work by very quickly and effectively relaying web page request for users to web sites and back. The CGI Proxy script relays your information without ever revealing exactly who you are. So you are anonymous to the web site you are visiting. This is done in a near seamless manor with the user only seeing a small advertising bar on top of the page. This information is going in both directions with the web site server talking to the server hosting the CGI proxy site. The website server does not know your location (IP address), browser type, language settings, cannot set cookies on your computer and Javascripts may be restricted.


What most users do not realize is that the cgi proxy server keeps a log of all the activity including web pages visited, user names, passwords, addresses, credit card numbers or anything else a person enters in in the web pages surfed through a cgi proxy. This treasure of data is exactly what people want to hide on the Internet but by using a CGI Proxy site you have just delivered the information to the CGI Proxy site owwner.


In 99% of cases the web site being visited should be more reliable and secure than a web based cgi proxy service. For example visiting Yahoo mail from a new fast running CGI Proxy site, Yahoo is less likely to criminally use provided information collected from its websites combined with the knowledge of your location and browser type than a small website operator hosting a free CGI Proxy script. While logging into your yahoo account and not revealing your location (IP) to yahoo may sound positive, the price you pay is sharing all of your information including passwords with the CGI proxy site owner.


Credit card information, addresses, contacts or any other information entered on a web form while surfing pages through a CGI Proxy site are also available in the server logs. Don't take the unneeded risk with your personal information, DO NOT USE WEBBASED CGI PROXY SITES FOR ANONYMITY.


CGI Proxy sites do have evolved into a leading way to bypass network website filters that block specific sites. just be sure that you know the risk involved in checking your hotmail from work or looking at your myspace profile at school. This is a leading source of hijacked profiles for these sites.


Michael Paul is a web site developer who shares his insight into the working s of the web. Learn more about start using cgi proxy at http://www.cgiproxy.info


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Among The Free Web Proxies

Among The Free Web Proxies
By Stefan Jechel


It is good to know that public free proxy servers are good to use because of the three big reasons as follows:


First of all, these public proxy servers provide a different way of distributing efficiently the network traffic in real time. Their fast response to the people needs of browsing makes the proxy servers a more and more common browsing choice. You might wonder what happens when a large number of persons would like to watch the same movie, the same show or even a simple web page at the same time. The fact is that if these persons will use the proxy servers the net traffic will be consistently reduce. This is the cause of the developed technology for these proxy servers. The phenomenon consists like it follows: if a person opens a web page through a proxy server the received information will be stored in a so called database known as cache. This stored information will be available for further usage for all the users of the proxy servers. This will lead to faster browsing and less direct connections.


The second good thing that we have to remember about these free web proxies is that they developed a way to avoid censors. Some internet providers do not agree with some users and might band them but that will be no problem if proxy servers are used.


The third and most important thing about the free web proxies is that they action just like a firewall. It is recommended to browse the internet through these proxy servers because they do not give any information about you, your IP, or your ID, things that are sufficient for the usage of hacking tools. It gets to a strange conclusion that tells us that the same technology that helps hackers is turned against them.


As an advice for persons that are blocked in their attempt to surf the web we might say that they should search for proxies that are not known by censors. It is also recommended that you find your own proxy and common proxy port numbers such as 3128 or 8000. Web meetings, that just happen to act as proxies along with proxy portals might also be a solution.


It is also true that there are not enough public proxy servers so they can not be always truly useful, but we have to say that there are many private proxy serves used as gateways/concentrators for outside traffic.


For more resources about Free Web Proxies please review this website http://www.26proxy.com


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A Part Of The Public Proxy Servers

A Part Of The Public Proxy Servers
By Stefan Jechel


Proxy servers are, such as browsers, a way of connection between an internet user and internet resources that he is accessing. These proxy servers gather and in the same time they save files that are often requested by a great part of the internet users in a special database called cache. That is why, using a proxy server might lead to the increase of your internet connection speed because it is possible that the information you are searching over the internet to be already a part of the cache of the proxy server. In some case proxy servers might deliver information immediately. The performance increase might be very high and more than that through proxy servers some restrictions for certain users might be imposed.


Along with the public proxy servers there are some so called anonymous proxy servers that hide users IP address saving the users from vulnerabilities.


The anonymous proxy servers hide users IP address and prevent unauthorized access to their computer through the internet. These anonymous proxy servers will not provide anyone with your IP address and do hide the information about you and your net browsing. More than that, anonymous proxy servers do not allow anyone to know what you are browsing and because of the mentioned advantage these proxy servers might be used for different kinds of Web services such as web mail or web chat rooms.


Anonymous proxy servers are recommended because it can stop any web source you access to gather personal information about you and you personal computer, which surely include the IP address and even the internet ID’s. It is also a good solution because it denies the actions of monitoring sites that, once they’ve got your ID and other personal information might send regularly their spam and junk e-mails.


It is good to know that web sites might automatically pass through your computer’s security system with the help of not so complicated or complex hacking programs. Most of these hacking programs usually lead to a repeated blocking of your machine, making you reboot it but only in the easy cases. More complicated problems occur when the hacking problems get access to your RAM or hard disk drive. These is a real threat because some sites do not need more than your IP and some information about your operating system to do the mentioned things.


The main solution is to use anonymous proxy server so that nobody can have a chance to find your IP and to control your PC. A good solution is http://www.22proxy.com/, the anonymous proxy server that protects you from spam.


For more resources about Public Proxy Servers please review this website http://www.22proxy.com


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Hide IP Address Behind Free Proxy Server

Hide IP Address Behind Free Proxy Server
By Jitesh Arora


Every computer has a unique identity which it uses to communicate with other computers and electronic devices on the world wide web. When ever you surf the internet your IP address which is also known your computer identity is tracked by the server which is exchanging information with you. An IP address is a 32 bits numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods.


Some people don`t want their online activity to be tracked and they use various softwares,tools and methods to hide their identity. The methods and tools which are used by the people to hide their internet protocol address are both paid and free.


One of the method with the help of which you can hide address of your computer is using a free proxy server. If you are using a proxy server to hide your internet protocol address then the person who will try to track your address will find the identity of the proxy server.


Many internet surfers use proxy servers for privacy and safety but these servers have their traffic and bandwidth limits. Sometimes the information you are exchanging online is too big to be handled by a proxy server.


A firefox extension called switch proxy is used to change the internet protocol address at regular intervals of times. If you really want to increase your privacy and security online then using a free server to hide your identity is a good idea. Internet is a good source of information but not always safe.


If you want to hide your internet protocol address then feel free to visit Proxy Server and Proxy List.


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