All posts tagged proxy

A Tinyproxy Transparent Installation on Ubuntu 12.04 with HTTPS Support

by gyp on October 8, 2012 in Business, Computers, internet with No comments

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If you want an easier way to get Tinyproxy working and don’t want to use transparent support try this post to install Tinyproxy on Ubuntu.

The repositories for Ubuntu don’t have Transparent Support enabled for Tinyproxy. Some firewalls and corporate installations need to use transparent proxies if they are internally redirecting. This post will guide you through building Tinyproxy from source on Ubuntu 12.04 as a complete installation and working system.

I couldn’t find any decent guides out there on how to make this work, so I thought I’d put one together. Hopefully my research will come in useful for someone else… Warning this is a little more in-depth than my usual tutorials, but I promise it will be worth it in the end.

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How to Enable Squid Anonymous Stealth Mode

by gyp on September 13, 2012 in internet with 2 Comments

There are some times when you don’t want your proxy server announcing that it’s a proxy server to the world. Getting Squid to anonymise the requests coming from behind it isn’t done out of the box.

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How to Block Ads on iPhone and iPad Jailbreak Free

by gyp on April 17, 2012 in Computers, internet, iPhone with 4 Comments

Disclaimer – This walkthrough involves equipment other than your iPhone or iPad in order to work!

This will also probably work on any other computer, smartphone or tablet that supports HTTP proxies.

iPad before Ad Blocking

iPad after Ad Blocking

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Using SSH as a SOCKS VPN on Mac OS

by gyp on June 21, 2011 in internet with 10 Comments

This post seems to follow on from my previous post regarding a quick and easy proxy server on Ubuntu! And sticks with the proxy theme quite nicely.

I’ve come across a couple of corporate VPN solutions that appear to open a SSH tunnel for the VPN and push all traffic down it accordingly. Sometimes it’s very useful to be able to test routing from a remote source, or to give your users a cheap and quick VPN. (As well as in this case the VPN and Firewall provider didn’t provide a native Mac VPN client.)

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Tinyproxy A Quick and Easy Proxy Server on Ubuntu

by gyp on June 17, 2011 in Computers, internet with 11 Comments

As much as I think that a fully blown Squid Proxy sat on a network working as a Proxy server and giving virus and content filtering is a great bit of technology, I also appreciate that sometimes something simpler, quicker and easier is required.

I came across an organisation this week that was using a hosted web filter service. They were still having issues with bandwidth utilisation putting their email flow in jeopardy so they needed to do something about it.

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