A Good Proxy

Hey everyone! I'm looking for a good proxy to use and i'm having trouble deciding what to pick. Could anyone reccomend a good free proxy?

By the way, I like the site, nice job to the admin ;).

[QUOTE=RamsesXIII]Hey everyone! I'm looking for a good proxy to use and i'm having trouble deciding what to pick. Could anyone reccomend a good free proxy?

By the way, I like the site, nice job to the admin ;).[/QUOTE]

You should use tor, it's a program you download that will bounce all connections through it's own network of servers, it's reliable and uses encryption I think. It is now packages with provoxy as well, so all you need to do is download the tor and privoxy package from:

[url]http://www.freehaven.net/~edmanm/torcp/download/tor-0.*.0.*6-torcp-0.0.4-bundle-2.exe[/url]

And read about tor on:

[url]http://tor.eff.org/[/url]


Then install tor and privoxy, then set your browser to use this setting for all protocols:

Proxy:

*27.0.0.*

Port:

8**8

Then start privoxy and tor and leave them running, go to a site like:

[url]http://www.whatismyip.com/[/url]

and see what your ip is without using the proxy, then do the settings and set up tor as proxy like I described before, re***** the page, and the ip should be different, the proxy is working if it's different.

Thanks it works great. Just one thing, it won't load the page if I turn TOR off and I need my ip to stay the same sometimes for people to connect to a server I run. Would it work if I set my protocols back to before I had the proxy?

Also, does the tor slow my connection speed?

[QUOTE=RamsesXIII]Thanks it works great. Just one thing, it won't load the page if I turn TOR off and I need my ip to stay the same sometimes for people to connect to a server I run. Would it work if I set my protocols back to before I had the proxy?

Also, does the tor slow my connection speed?[/QUOTE]

Yes, if you set them back to what it was before you set them up for, then it will just connect normally, ignoring tor. If you have firefox, you should get switchproxy

[url]https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=*25&application=firefox[/url]

It allows you to easily switch between proxy settings instead of typing every one in for each protocol, so with one click you can switch between using tor as a proxy and having no proxy, depending on what you're doing. If you use IE, then you should get firefox anyway.

"it won't load the page if I turn TOR off"

If you just turn tor off, then your browser is still trying to connect through tor, but of course tor is not running so nothing will happen, you need to set your proxy settings back to what they were before to make it back to normal.

"I need my ip to stay the same sometimes for people to connect to a server I run."

Your ip never changes, you are just using other ips (the tor network) to carry out all your requests and them transmit back to you, you are still at the same ip. You should not use tor as a proxy for all your server's traffic (whatever the server's for), people run tor servers giving away their bandwidth and they get angry when someone uses it for bittorrent or for online gaming, you really don't need to use it for that. So basically just turn off tor and privoxy and put any settings back to normal for whatever program you are using tor with and everything will be back to what it was before, but your ip doesn't change when using tor, remember that, you are just using another ip.

Ok thanks for clearing that up, and yes I do have FireFox.

[url]http://www.tehbox.com/proxy/[/url]

[QUOTE=mike*0*]You should use tor, it's a program you download that will bounce all connections through it's own network of servers, it's reliable and uses encryption I think. It is now packages with provoxy as well...[/QUOTE]

I'm running Firefox *.5.0.*, TOR 0.*.*6, TORCP 0.0.4 and Privoxy *.0.*. I'm also using SwitchProxy *.*.4 (a Firefox extension) on Windows XP SP2.

I've been using this configuration for a few weeks with no problems, and regularly go to IP reporting sites - such as [url]http://ipid.shat.net[/url], [url]http://www.ippages.com[/url], [url]http://www.whatismyipaddress.com[/url], [url]http://megawx.aws.com/support/faq/software/ip.asp[/url], [url]http://www.admuncher.com/ips-test.shtml[/url] - to check that everything is working.

But sometimes I shut down Firefox with TOR turned off. This means that when Firefox starts next time, it does so without going through the TOR proxy. This can happen if I click on a web site link in an email and Firefox starts (with TOR still turned off by SwitchProxy) so Firefox goes to the web site directly - that is, it doesn't go through TOR. This means I may go to a web site directly when I don't want them to know my IP.

So what I want to do is to leave TOR always running, but specify which sites it should connect to directly, such as google and hotmail.

If I go to "Control Panel/Internet Options/Connections/LAN Settings/Advanced/Exceptions", I can add the names *google.com* and *hotmail* (separated by semi-colons) and this successfully allows Internet Explorer to connect directly with these sites. I can see in the "Privoxy" window that the connection does not go through Privoxy or TOR. So with Internet Explorer I can go to risky sites using TOR and non-risky sites without TOR, and I don't have to do anything (I don't have to manually manipulate TOR).

But I can't get Firefox to work the same way.

What I have done for Firefox, is to Edit the TOR proxy configuration, by using the "Edit" button on the SwitchProxy tool bar. This displays a "Proxy Info" window where there is a "No Proxies For:" box which contains, by default, "localhost, *27.0.0.*".

I've added google and hotmail to this list so that the box now contains: "localhost, *27.0.0.*, *google.com*, *hotmail*". But all these addresses still go through Privoxy - I can see them being accessed in the "Privoxy window".

I've also checked in "about:config" and found a Preference name called "network.proxy.no_proxies_on". And the value of this is "localhost, *27.0.0.*, *google.com*, *hotmail*". So I know that the "Edit" function of SwitchProxy is working, by why does Firefox still ignore the "no proxies on" list?



I could keep tinkering, but I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction? For example, have I got the syntax wrong in the "No Proxies for:" box?


Any help gratefully received!

Regards,

Roger.

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