how do I beat this minging firewall

fisty

someone smart in my IT dept has firewalled out www.boards.ie.
it comes up ACCESS DENIED in browser.
is there any way i can access boards from a mirror or anyone have any smart ideas to get around it?
I use an anonymiser webpage at the moment but thats painfully slow.
also tried using the IP instead of the domain to no avail.
Help!
Need a fix of boards!

Moriarty

Try something like http://www.http-tunnel.com

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fisty

thanks, tried it
no joy - they must have a good firewall - it just spat gibberish back at me.
isn't there something that will change the port http uses or sommat so it cant be stopped?

Kali

easy.. go ask someone in the IT dept. to take it out of the firewalls denied list.
say its s great information source for fixing problems.. and its the quickest way to find a solution blah blah blah

fisty

you don't know the guys in my IT dept very well do you...

Hobbes

You sure it's your IT department? It's possible boards.ie banned your work place if there was anyone acting the muppet there. It's happend before.

chernobyl

solution :- dont browse the boards during work.
Theres no way to beat the wall, maybe a peace offering for the IT guys.

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Snaga

you could try....

http://www.anonymiser.com/

see if they let you get to that site. It will load boards, change all the links and everything so thats its pointing through to their website enabling you to access banned sites.

I think

Hecate

well if you have a proxy or anything like that it can be configured to ban access to certain addresses or addresses with keywords in them (smartfilter does this).

not much use really but you should approach your IT ppl, never know they might be in an accomodating mood

fisty

**** it I think i'll just ask them.
there was a certain someone in the same wrokplace as me a while back doing some stupid **** (I'm sure some of you remember)
thats what got the boards blocked.
maybe they'll lighten up...

Gavin

I suppose if you were feeling energetic, you could write a script that you enter the url and it goes and fetches it for you and displays it. then run the script on an external website. Would be very easy to do.. just awkward to keep have to enter the url you want to go to. Could write it to process the web page actually and when it encounters a url, swaps the url with the url of your script and passes the original url as a arg.

Gav

Xenophobic

Try www.safeweb.com, if they haven't blocked it.

Xeno

Loomer

LOL This is what I got when I tried to load Safeweb at work.

Illegal Characters in Request
The firewall refused to process and retrieve the URL you requested because of a protocol violation:
Characters not allowed in a hostname were found in the requested URL

The URL that was seen by the firewall was:
http://www.safeweb.com,/

This kind of protocol violation is denied in order to protect web servers from attacks that include control and other non-printable characters. It is also denied to ensure that only HTTP traffic is passed by the HTTP proxy, thus ensuring the integrity of your site's security policy.

If you believe that this request should have been allowed, contact the web site administrator and request that their application be modified to be HTTP compliant.

Xenophobic

My fault try www.safeweb.com with NO ","

fisty

the IT depts reply was to send me a link to this thread, which I found quite funny but it doesn't look like they're going to get rid of it, you people must be a bad influence or something ;P

fisty

thanks for the link
safeweb is excellent.
no delays or popups.
great stuff mate.