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What is TUBGIRL and why would I use it?

In effect, TUBGIRL is a proxying server with one purpose: let you post on Slashdot almost no matter what. Some things it's useful for:


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    • Circumventing IP posting bans when you can't (or don't want to) configure a HTTP proxy on an unbanned network you have access to. For example, where I work, administrative policies on the system make setting up proxies in Internet Explorer non-trivial (and auditing tools and policy prevent us from installing other software w/o IT approval). If I'm banned at work, but not at home, I could run a TUBGIRL server at home to post from work and it would take only one short command line to do it.

     

    • Circumventing software like WebSense that may be configured to block traffic to and from the Slashdot host or IP address (note: for the time being, the data is sent plain text. A future version will encrypt the data before sending it so that auditing tools that watch packet traffic will be less useful in identifying what a particular connection to a TUBGIRL server was doing). Also, note that other than the basic handshakes required for connection negotiation, the TUBGIRL server doesn't talk back to you, so the only data that will appear in logs is what you send.

Basically, if you can view websites (not counting those that software like WebSense bans) and use telnet, you can post to slashdot regardless of what other policies are in place. You may get in trouble if they audit their logs and see what's happening, but that's your problem (and the next version of TUBGIRL will support data encryption to help minimize that risk).

So if you want to post to Slashdot from somewhere you normally can't, and you have access to a network where you can post (and you're at liberty to run the TUBGIRL server on it), TUBGIRL can help you out.

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Yea, that's right. Sourceforge was nice enough to host.

The code is Alpha. It's currently configured to run on Windows because that's what I was on when I made the last tweaks. It should run on UNIX-ish systems with a change to the bang line:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

Bug reports and feature requests go to sourceforge, not here. General feedback is welcome here.

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TUBGIRL 0.02 Release Announced

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  • This lets the user post despite their IP and ID being blocked/banned? And it does this despite having limited options because of a restricted local network environment?
    • Many people who have been banned have complained that they're banned from work or home or "one network but not another". For example, I'm often blocked at work but not at home.

      When that happens, people are sometimes unable (or simply unwilling) to use a proxy to post. I can't, for example, change the proxy settings in IE (at least not easily, if I can at all) at work due to administrative settings. Some people are also banned from posting to Slashdot from certain networks altogether due to software running
      • So why aren't you just running something like
        http://freshmeat.net/projects/sbp/ [freshmeat.net] a web proxy? there are a ton of them on freshmeat... it basacially turns your home pc's web server into an anonymizer proxy etc.. it seems a lot more full featured than just allowing you to post data ;)
        • Not an option on all networks. Some people, such as myself, get stuck on networks where administrative policies disable your ability to post through a proxy. This is a lower-level system than a usual web proxy. Basically, if you can use the WWW on a network, and you have telnet, nothing short of identifying blocking the individual packets at the firewall can stop you from posting to slashdot from that network.
          • Go to the url, it's not a Proxy you 'set' in ie.
            It's a proxy that isn't a 'real' proxy...
            So what i'm trying to figure out is how they're 'blocking' a 'web proxy' that you've got running privately on a personal web server.... if they're blockign that then you DON'T have http access to the outside. Because it's only using port 80 and only sending html data generated by a php script.
        • FYI: I updated the JE with some examples to try and help explain when one would want to use TUBGIRL instead of a regular HTTP proxy.
          • and the url i gave you isn't a http proxy it's not a squid style proxy etc etal. it's just a url you type in the browser, and i'm not getting why those don't work behing corperate lockdowns, because Web annonymizers were DESIGNED to work around censorship style configurations blocking access to websites etc.

  • Looks like a nifty thing you got going there. I have yet to be banned, but I will definitely check this out and see how it goes.

    Like the name, BTW...

  • This sounds like an interesting and useful bit of geekery... But why call it "Tubgirl"?
  • that makes me smile! Long live tubgirl!

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