Want more control over your internet traffic? Follow these simple steps to set up a proxy server, block unwanted websites, mask your IP address, and more. I'm a seasoned journalist who has been ...

A proxy server is an easy and secure way to protect your identity online. But is it better than a VPN? We explain how proxies work and whether you should be using one. I'm a senior analyst charged ...

Recently I had to capture some HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses for documentation I was writing. My first thought was to use the HTTP Inspector from ActiveState Komodo 4.0. Unfortunately, HTTP ...

Consider the venerable Web proxy—back when the Internet was new to most of us, setting up a Web proxy was a convenient way to grant users of an otherwise non-Internet-connected network access to the ...

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The best alternative to a VPN is a proxy site that can help you unblock and access Blocked or Restricted Websites. In this post, we have curated a list of some of the best free online web proxy sites ...

Sun Microsystems recently said it will soon open source the core components of Sun Java System Web Proxy and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 under the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The ...

Anonymous proxies enable you to access websites that are blocked from certain networks. Some proxy Web applications provide the option to allow cookies through the proxy application. To allow cookies ...

i believe you can only specify one IP/port combo in the http_proxy environment variable. a possibly easier method than setting up clusters or VIPs, would be to setup round-robin DNS entires for the ...

Using Yahoo Messenger to chat with coworkers and customers can be an ideal way to communicate and to get a quick answer to a question. Yahoo Messenger installs with default Web proxy settings that ...