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Interesting idea. But maybe more practical to provide an easy-to-install package that allows an apache installation to provide a proxy service in a standard wa

by chrisb 17y ago

Interesting idea. But maybe more practical to provide an easy-to-install package that allows an apache installation to provide a proxy service in a standard way. Probably with a configurable bandwidth limit. Not sure how people would discover them though...

jacquesm 17y ago
That's why I figured to do it on every existing installation. Simply go to some site and type ?q=hello+there after the domain and get your google results.
- chrisb 17y ago
  This may allow full search results, but the links still won't work, as the firewall blocks 'undesirable' URLs. So the proxy would also need to convert URLs in the returned pages to link to proxied URLs, and to provide a proxy service for these 'undesirable' URLs. If content filtering is used, then it would also need to strip out 'undesirable' words to prevent the whole page from being blocked based on its content rather than its URL. I suppose a central service could be provided to provide all the proxy servers with the uptodate list of URLs that need proxying, and words that must be removed. All this seems to me to be very possible, although it's probably a little more than you were thinking.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    > All this seems to me to be very possible, although it's probably a little more than you were thinking. That's probably true. But I can't see how a single government entity would be able to withstand the collective smarts of the population on both sides of that link cooperating to defeat it. They would either have to shut down the link or stop censoring at some point.
    - chrisb 17y ago
      I agree that technically it should be possible to defeat the firewall with a system like this. However, possibly fear of reprisals from the government if found doing it may put off many people. I might spend some time putting together something that can easily be installed in apache that does this.
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        Cool. Let me know when you've got it and I'll run it on my sites.

by chrisb 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago

That's why I figured to do it on every existing installation. Simply go to some site and type ?q=hello+there after the domain and get your google results.

chrisb 17y ago
This may allow full search results, but the links still won't work, as the firewall blocks 'undesirable' URLs. So the proxy would also need to convert URLs in the returned pages to link to proxied URLs, and to provide a proxy service for these 'undesirable' URLs. If content filtering is used, then it would also need to strip out 'undesirable' words to prevent the whole page from being blocked based on its content rather than its URL. I suppose a central service could be provided to provide all the proxy servers with the uptodate list of URLs that need proxying, and words that must be removed. All this seems to me to be very possible, although it's probably a little more than you were thinking.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  > All this seems to me to be very possible, although it's probably a little more than you were thinking. That's probably true. But I can't see how a single government entity would be able to withstand the collective smarts of the population on both sides of that link cooperating to defeat it. They would either have to shut down the link or stop censoring at some point.
  - chrisb 17y ago
    I agree that technically it should be possible to defeat the firewall with a system like this. However, possibly fear of reprisals from the government if found doing it may put off many people. I might spend some time putting together something that can easily be installed in apache that does this.
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      Cool. Let me know when you've got it and I'll run it on my sites.