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13 Responses to "Free or Inexpensive Proxy"

1. | Reply Michael Koziarski
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 1:04am #
   

   Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) will probably run fine on a mac. It's free and is a pretty common proxy server.

2. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 1:10am #
   

   Michael, thank you for the tip, but please pay attention. I don't want to run something on my computer - I want to access an existing proxy server somewhere on the 'net, "ideally" so that it "will report the visitor IP to the site as something other than my own."

   In other words, I don't want to run something on my computer.

3. | Reply Philip
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 1:40am #
   

   dmoz has a large number of proxies listed (both free and pay services).

4. | Reply Erik Hollensbe
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 5:10am #
   

   Squid is a proxy /server/, and thus can be installed on another machine other than your client.

   If you want something simple however, check out http://sbp.sufferingfools.net.

5. | Reply Erik Hollensbe
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 5:13am #
   

   As far as free, unrestricted proxies, good luck finding a published one - as they are normally a great tool for spammers, either the IP's are blacklisted all over the place or they are flooded off so quickly they're taken down.

   Same thing when someone configures an open relay mail server, for the same reasons.

6. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 8:59am #
   

   Erik, I said an HTTP proxy, not an SMTP proxy. And I just said - again - that I don't want a server.

7. | Reply Anthony
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 11:43am #
   

   web proxy. what do i win?

8. | Reply Dustin Sacks
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 6:49pm #
   

   guardster.com

9. | Reply JW
   Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 9:36pm #
   

   Use the SwitchProxy extention in Firefox. Once you have this setup you'll have a LARGE list of proxies you can use all built into your browser.

10. | Reply Patrick Quinn-Graham
    Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 10:43pm #
    

    Erik: a poorly configured HTTP proxy can be used to spam (by way of using the CONNECT command), so the other Erik was quite right in pointing that out.

    As for a proxy server you can use... I run one on my box in the US (for when the local transparent proxy is acting up), I usually ssh port forward to it though.

11. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
    Posted 18 Dec 2004 at 11:42pm #
    

    JW, thanks for the hint there. I've installed that in FireFox, but it renders FF useless. I can't click in the location bar, etc. I have only the Google and the Weather things installed, so…

12. | Reply John T
    Posted 19 Dec 2004 at 1:45am #
    

    Here's a list of proxy servers (I've used this site to find proxy servers to use in iChat when it's blocked by a firewall).

    http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

13. | Reply El Rocco
    Posted 20 Dec 2004 at 10:41am #
    

    Hey Erik,

    Here's what you need

    http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/proxy_list