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[squeekiemouse]

Would someone explain to me how to use proxies right? Im asking specifically about how to make it look like Im from a different place, i.e. to view things that are only for the UK or for Germany, or for the US when Im in Germany off of a German IP address. I find that extremely frustrating and I dont know how to bypass it safely. I honestly

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[nightbluesprite]

Hell if I know, but the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have put out some info that you may find useful. I'd take a look at #6 in this list and take it from there. Tor, an online encryption tool, may or may not help you, though, because you might need to "look" German and Tor only anonymizes.

Best of luck gaming the system!

[testing4l]

Tor, technically speaking, is not an encryption tool. it's a series of unlogged proxies that use SSL and do not log traffic.

It's the latter that's the important part. It obfuscates your location by way of proxies.

[grumpydoctor]

Tor also does not allow you to specify the country you "come out" in (at least it didn't the last time I used it), so if you're trying to get around country whitelists it probably won't be useful. It's also slow as balls, probably too slow for streaming media.

It doesn't

[testing4l]

and I doubt it ever would. It's somewhat against the purpose of the protocol.

[testing4l]

A proxy is just like a proxy in real life. It's something that does something for someone else and brings them back the results.

So, a web proxy works like so (Hey, I wonder if ascii art will work here):

---- ---- ----
|1 | <-> |2 | <-> |3 |
---- ---- ----

(That'll be a fun experiment)

your web browser on your computer (1) sends to the proxy server (2) what website you want to go to. The proxy server (2) accesses the page on the web server (3) and then sends it back to your web browser on your computer (1). From 3's perspective, all network traffic was done on the proxy server and it has no notion that this was all done on your computer's (1) behalf.

My guess from context is that you're trying to watch Netflix overseas. I tried doing that when I was in Poland. Anyway, in that particular case, it's because the RIAA is very, very touchy about copyright law; especially overseas in the Netherlands where they've been unsuccessfully trying to sue the folks who run thepiratesbay.org.

[squeekiemouse]

I think I understand how it works--Ive been reading enough on the interwebs to get a good idea. What I dont really understand is how to set one up. I mean, I know there's the tab on my network admin thing that says "proxies" but its got a textbox and some stuff, and I dont really know how to turn that into a real proxy, and do it without messing something up. A lot of the instructions tell me to "talk to my network admin," which is nice except I dont have one. What is it exactly that I have to have? Where exactly do I have to put that?

I've also looked at proxy websites that have a place to copy paste a URL and just go from there. Except they dont really work for anything more complicated than a simple website--it doesnt seem to load javascript or flash stuff (or at least not well), which is kinda problematic for many sites.

For the record--I have a mac. I figure thats probably important.

Thanks!

[testing4l]

You need the IP address or DNS name of a proxy and possibly a port.

For example, boogeyman runs an HTTP proxy on port 8888, so you would tell your system that boogeyman.armory.com is the proxy name, and 8888 is the port. On some systems, it might just ask for a proxy name without asking for a port, so you'd use "boggeyman.armory.com:8888"

(You are free to use it, but I intentionally slow down the amount of traffic that can go through it, so it may be too slow for your needs.)

There are other types of proxies for SSL, Gopher, FTP. There are also "SOCKS proxies", but if I understand you correctly, you only need web access, so you should only need HTTP.

[robyngoodfelloe]

dunno if this will help at all, but I ran across this awhile ago. Might help get you started

http://lifehacker.com/5504673/how-to-access-the-bbc-iplayer-from-outside-the-uk-with-firefox//gallery/1

[nightbluesprite]

Here's another link that might be helpful.