How to unblock websites at school (school proxies)

Trying to reach your favourite website from school but it's blocked? Luckily there are ways to bypass school firewall and unblock websites. The easiest way to unblock Myspace, Facebook or whatever you want is to use a proxy server.

What do school proxies do?

A proxy server works like gateway between your school computer and the website you want to access to. The proxy server visits website you entered, then download it and transmit content to your computer. By using proxy website you are surfing the web indirectly. School firewall sees like you just browsing one website (proxy) so you stay unblocked.

Tips for using proxies at school

It's best to use new proxy websites. Popular proxy websites get blocked by school firewalls. Proxy lists get blocked too. Often school firewalls block the word proxy in web site addresses so I suggest you to use proxies that don't have word 'proxy' in their names. Other way to unblock websites is by making your own proxy. This is not easy way but it pays off. Just search google for guides. Some other ways to bypass school firewalls are by using Google Translator or Google's cached version of the web site. These tricks don't always help you to unblock Myspace or Facebook but sometimes they're quite useful. To unblock Myspace I suggest you to use regular type web proxies though.

Google translator as your school proxy

If you access the internet from your school or public library, you have probably already realized that many popular web sites have been blocked. Here I show you how to access such sites by using Google translation service.

The idea is simple. Google translation service works similar to proxy server between blocked website and your school computer. The problem is that we don’t want pages to be translated. To bypass this problem we need to assign wrong language to translate from. You know, the translation service does not translate unknown words. Translator leaves unknown words as they are. Look at the example code below. Just change myspace.com to url of the site you want to visit.

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=ar|en&u=www.myspace.com

Using Google App Engine to run proxy server

Hello everybody. Today I'm gonna tell you how to use Google App as your school proxy server.
Almost a year ago Google had officially announced Google App Engine.
Google App Engine allows you to run your own web applications on Google's servers.
It costs nothing to get started. Free account allowed to use up to 500 MB of server space and enough CPU and bandwidth to serve around 5 million page views a month. You can also use a free domain name on the appspot.com domain, or use Google Apps from your own domain.
App Engine provides a runtime environment that uses the Python programming language.
I'm not surprised, that some guys had written proxy server scripts to run on Google App Engine. You can find them on the web. Mirrorrr(mirrorrr.appspot.com) and Gappproxy(mostly being used in China) are good examples. They are open-source, so you can even download and setup your own proxy server. I doubt your school firewalls block Google App. So I assume this is one more way to unblock websites at school.

How to bypass school firewall

If your work or school has use filtering to prevent people from visiting certain websites - a proxy server is a way to get around such restrictions. Proxy server works by acting as a "middle man" - first it download the requested page itself, then proxy server sends you downloaded page, all images and other objects, thus bypassing any filters or firewalls. This is good alternative for students to bypass school firewalls or filters to access such popular sites as MySpace or Bebo. Most anonymous proxy servers use open source web scripts, such as PHProxy or Glype or Zelune, which are indeed excellent proxy software.