Comment on An actually functional webproxy to self-host

wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• myszka@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Close to invidious but not specific to any particular site. A page that allows to open other pages through it, like a browser inside a web page except it’s only for opening a website and has no other browser functionality. Here’s a proprietary example: croxyproxy.com

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah what you want is a SOCKS5 proxy.

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    • myszka@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks! SOCKS5 proxy is a good option, I don’t know why I didn’t think of it from the very beginning…

      My goal is to bypass local censorship on university computers that don’t allow running any executables except those provided by the administrator. And I’m trying to help professors who aren’t particularly tech-savvy, so a webproxy is actually still a better option.

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      • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        By the way: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_IT

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    • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These kinds of setups are used to bypass agressive network filtering and content censhorship. All the traffic is http(s). And then the way only a browser is needed means it works on locked down devices like chromebooks.

      The browser in docker is something I have used, but it requires more resources to host and can only be used by one person at once if you are using something like linuxserver’s webtop.

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      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then EOCKS is what you want. It can be used on a Chromebook as well.

        These proxying websites are running full browser instances in the background. It’s the only way to guarantee all the traffic is routed through it.

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