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BipolarChucker · 07-17-03, 11:38 AM

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

This is one you can run on your own home system BUT you need a little understanding of Internet Information Server (IIS) in order to set it up. Also you should look into securing your webserver once it is publically accessible. A standard install of the IIS Lockdown tool and URLscan from Microsoft will go a long way to protecting it from malicious surfers.

You'll also need to install ActiveState ActivePerl. http://www.activestate.com/

I run this one myself incase I need to do anything cheeky from work. Basically it runs from a web server using a Perl script so you first need to suss out how to install and run Perl scripts on a Windows machine.

There's lots of guides etc on how to do this and ActiveState's installer should hopefully do most of the work for you.

The default configuration makes the URL for the site you are using look like this http://www.yourservername.com/nph-pr...revisiting/com so if he's visiting pr0n sites (naughty!) then the sysadmin will know what's going on. You can encode the URL though.

One further thing you'll need to do is password protect access to the Perl script itself or the sysadmin can simply visit the page and get to see the site you visited.

I tried a hell of a lot of scripts and this is by far the best one available, it is also the one that LOADS of the free proxy servers use. It is freeware under the GNU GPL.

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BipolarChucker Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Leeds, UK Posts: 68 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ This is one you can run on your own home system BUT you need a little understanding of Internet Information Server (IIS) in order to set it up. Also you should look into securing your webserver once it is publically accessible. A standard install of the IIS Lockdown tool and URLscan from Microsoft will go a long way to protecting it from malicious surfers. You'll also need to install ActiveState ActivePerl. http://www.activestate.com/ I run this one myself incase I need to do anything cheeky from work. Basically it runs from a web server using a Perl script so you first need to suss out how to install and run Perl scripts on a Windows machine. There's lots of guides etc on how to do this and ActiveState's installer should hopefully do most of the work for you. The default configuration makes the URL for the site you are using look like this http://www.yourservername.com/nph-pr...revisiting/com so if he's visiting pr0n sites (naughty!) then the sysadmin will know what's going on. You can encode the URL though. One further thing you'll need to do is password protect access to the Perl script itself or the sysadmin can simply visit the page and get to see the site you visited. I tried a hell of a lot of scripts and this is by far the best one available, it is also the one that LOADS of the free proxy servers use. It is freeware under the GNU GPL. __________________ The golden rule of computer problems - reboot first, ask questions later! ;) Last edited by BipolarChucker; 07-17-03 at 11:41 AM.