One great running http proxy server Unblockbess

Hadn’t found a running http proxy server when you want to visit myspace, youtube, hulu?

Go to unblockbess.com, UnblockBess is what’s known as a CGI Proxy service, that is, I run a website based proxy on my server, and you connect to it to retrieve websites.

HTTP Proxy Settings how to For Internet Explorer

Fllowing the below seven steps to configure HTTP proxy server for IE.

1.First you will need a proxy server account

There are two different types of proxy accounts that work with these configurations in Internet Explorer. You can choose from USA only proxy servers or USA + Off shore access. At this time, the USA option gives you access to over 300 broadband proxy servers and the off shore gives you access to over 600.

What is a HTTP Proxy?

An HTTP Proxy is an intermediary program which acts as both an HTTP Server and an HTTP Client, receiving a request from a Client (in most cases a Browser) and then acting as an HTTP Client and making requests on behalf of other HTTP Clients. However, requests to an HTTP Proxy can also be serviced internally, for example if the HTTP Proxy uses its Cache instead of sending a request to the origin HTTP Server. In order to use an HTTP Proxy, the HTTP Client’s request has to be explicitly addressed to the HTTP Proxy server, which then sends a request to the origin HTTP Server. An HTTP Proxy may also perform a protocol conversion, for example a Browser may send an HTTP request to the HTTP Proxy referencing an FTP resource, and the HTTP Proxy then acts as FTP Client to retrieve the resource from the FTP Server using FTP, and eventually the resource is sent back from the HTTP Proxy to the Browser using HTTP.

Collecting of Proxy softwares

Here colleced many free proxy softwares, just summary. If you need learn more, please go to their official site.
AlchemyPoint is a user-programmable mashup proxy server that can be used to re-write web pages, emails, instant messenger messages, and other network transmissions on the fly.
The Apache HTTP Server can be configured to act as a proxy server.

The risks of using an anonymous proxy server

In using an proxy server (for example, anonymizing HTTP proxy), all data sent to the service being used (for example, HTTP proxy server in a website) must pass through the proxy server before being sent to the service, mostly in unencrypted form. It is therefore possible, as has been demonstrated, for a malicious proxy server to record everything sent to the proxy: including unencrypted logins and passwords.

By chaining proxies which do not reveal data about the original requester, it is possible to obfuscate activities from the eyes of the user’s destination. However, more traces will be left on the intermediate hops, which could be used or offered up to trace the user’s activities. If the policies and administrators of these other proxies are unknown, the user may fall victim to a false sense of security just because those details are out of sight and mind.

The bottom line of this is to be wary when using proxy servers, and only use proxy servers of known integrity (e.g., the owner is known and trusted, has a clear privacy policy, etc.), and never use proxy servers of unknown integrity. If there is no choice but to use unknown proxy servers, do not pass any private information (unless it is properly encrypted) through the proxy.

In what is more of an inconvenience than a risk, proxy server users may find themselves being blocked from certain Web sites, as numerous forums and Web sites block IP addresses from proxies known to have spammed or trolled the site.