Hi, I have a website on a .com domain registered in my name. Is it possible to put a free web proxy script on the site for the use by others to surf blocked sites. I come from Iraq, and back in the days when most sites where blocked for us, I made a promise to myself that I would try to set up a free web proxy for the others who live under a dictatorship regime that monitors what its citizen are browsing on the net.

Thanks

as far as I know you cant do that... unless your IP (ISP) is the one being blocked by the websites.

even if you use proxy, you still type the same target address right? so the ISP will still know... not to mention if they already connect you to the internet by using their proxies

a friend of mine used to be sending zipped webpages in email, to his friend in another "strict" country... that's the best method I'm aware of :(

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Well, we had a many ways to overcome blocked sites, one was to use free web proxies, but the problem is that most of the known ones were blocked, and we couldnt search for proxies using search engines, cause these searches were filtered by the ISP (govn run). We relied on friends abroad to send us web proxies links for us to try. Iraq is not like that anymore, now we have dozens of local small ISPs, but i still want to help the less fortunate in other "strict" countries.

My question is, is it possible to run a script that can work as a web proxy for the visitors of the site? I know it needs to reformat the pages in order for the links to work, but is it just possible to do it?

Yes, it is definitely possible. I work for the US gov and they are always antsy about us using the internet from work. They will (unknowingly) let me surf to my proxy though (which I run from a home web server). I have set up SSL with a self-signed certificate, so all the government firewall sees is a tunnel to my home server.

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