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Glype Proxy Review

Ilyas — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:51:10 +0000

In my old post about the Zelune Review I mentioned that there is a new proxy script which is powerful, fast and use less resources than other script by the name of Glype.
Glype proxy is a free-to-use, web-based proxy script written in PHP. Similar to a typical proxy server, a web-proxy script downloads requested web pages and files and forwards them back to the user. The service is provided by a web page itself, which allows instant access to the proxy without editing your browser connection settings.

Glype script requires PHP 5 (or greater) with cURL enabled to run it in a server, the most important thing in glype that I like is the built in template system, you don’t have to ulpoad the whole script with template in your server like you do for phproxy, zelune and others. While in glype you just upload the template of yours and select it from the admin area.
You can control the whole site from the admin area, changing your site configurations, adding or removing advertisements, so its too much easier to run the site.

Some features of the script are :

plug and play – no installation needed simply upload and go!
admin control panel for easy management and configuration
server-side caching to improve speed for the end user, reduce load on your server and lighten the bandwidth bills
javascript support allows more sites to be browsed without loss of functionality
simple theme system to quickly customize your site, or choose from our range of free glype templates
control access with the use of a whitelist or blacklist of permitted/banned sites
block users by IP with individual addresses or across over an IP range; protect your site from malicious or abusive users
unique URLs provide greater privacy – once your session expires, any URLs stored in your history are invalidated
plugins allow you to quickly integrate site-specific code; useful for sites unsupported by the base proxy script
virtual browser lets you choose your own user-agent and referrer, and even tunnel the connection through another proxy server

According to me this script is one of the best proxy scripts available, as it has everything so makes it lot easier for anyone to run a proxy site. But still I’m using PHProxy in my proxies :D

Zelune Proxy Script

Ilyas — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:39:22 +0000

Zelune is a Free Proxy Script, much like PHProxy and CGI-Proxy. Zelune aims of setting global stands for all the web proxies. It is also a free to use proxy site script which will allow your site users to hide their identity, safely and securely, while browsing any site. Similar to other proxies, it also helps to bypass firewalls set up on a school or work network. Zelune uses cURL, which is faster than what PHProxy and CGI-Proxy use – and I have heard, Zelune is the world’s fastest proxy script, but its not as there is the new script out named Glype which is faster, don’t worry about it I will give a review of that as well in the next post.

They are also light to webhost server resources and bandwidth use. You can check various free templates and demo on their homepage, and here as well, as I’m going to release some free templates of all proxy scripts available soon these days. They are also working on for lots of improvements and new plugins, admin controls, adsense features etc. – all free for members

Demo and Download: Click here

CGI Proxy Script

Ilyas — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:15:19 +0000

As I’ve said earlier in my post about proxy scripts that I will review all the proxy scripts available. So today I’ve written a review of the CGI Proxy Script.

This CGI script acts as an HTTP or FTP proxy. Through it, you can retrieve any resource that is accessible from the server it runs on. This is useful when your own access is limited, but you can reach a server that in turn can reach others that you can’t. In addition, the user is kept as anonymous as possible from any servers. Common uses include: anonymous proxies similar to The Anonymizer, other personal uses, VPN-like functionality, and others. It’s very simple to install, and very configurable.

When an HTML resource is retrieved, it’s modified so that all links in it point back through the same proxy, including images, form submissions, and everything else. Once you’re using the proxy, you can browse normally and (almost) forget it’s there.

Configurable options include text-only support (to save bandwidth), selective cookie and script removal, simple ad filtering, access restriction by server, custom encoding of target URLs and cookies, and more– there are about 45 options so far. It can run under mod_perl unchanged. It requires Perl 5.004 or later Perl 5.6.1 or later may be required in future releases.

Demo: Click here

Download: Click here

Proxy Software

Ilyas — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Previously we talked about the method to create a proxy site without much discussing about a proxy script. So here is the tutorial regarding proxy scripts alone.

Now first of all I will explain you What is a Script ? - Scripts are readymade file packages made for creating a website. There is no need to create different webpages and edit them. Such scripts help you manage your site with a backend which only administrator or website owner sees. You can control your website from a backend admin panel. You just need to download the script, upload on your host, visit the install page, follow the onscreen instructions and you get a website within seconds. This is how scripts work. If you have a cpanel hosting with fantastico feature, there is no need to upload scripts on your host, just with few clicks you can create a website. E.g. of various scripts are WordPress, phpads, joomla etc.

There are plenty of proxy scripts available like PHProxy, CGIProxy, Zelune, Glype, but the two most popular proxy software on the Internet are PHPoxy and CGIProxy.

PHProxy

PHProxy offers a lot more customizability and offers a lot more than CGIProxy but the anonymity is not as good.

Here are the available options whilst using PHProxy:

Includes a mini URL-form on every HTML page
Remove client-side scripting (i.e. JavaScript)
Accept HTTP cookies
Show images
Show referring website in HTTP headers
Use rotate13 encoding on the URL
Use base64 encoding on the URL
Strip meta HTML tags
Strip Website title
Store cookies for this session only
Open URL in a new window

Some PHProxy instances may have been customized after the installation; these are just the default options. This is most probably all that one would need but by editing some of these abilities (e.g. enabling Client-Side Scripting), you will reduce anonymity and your original IP address will be viewable.

I will be giving review of all other proxy scripts in the coming articles, so be sure to check them out.