URL Obfuscating

"URL Obfuscating Web Proxies or Hide My Ass"

The problem with the web proxies is that the target website address that the user is visiting is revealed within the URL itself & hence this technique can easily be detected and blocked by your college or company administrator using a URL filtering technique. This is where some URL obfuscating proxies came into picture. OBFUSCATING is a technique of hiding a URL address in such a manner that nobody can figure out the actual website address by just looking at it. It makes it very tough for the network administrator to be able to detect and block you using URL filtering techniques.

STEP 1:-

One of my favourite URL Obfuscating proxy server is

"http://www.hidemyass.com"

It will look like this...

STEP 2:-

It allows you to encode a web address in such a manner that nobody can make any sense of it! all you need to do is type the requested web address in the space provided, select the URL encoding option & click on "hide my ass".

STEP 3:-

If you type www.youtube.com in the space provided, the "hide my ass" will obfuscate the web address. Here not only the URL has been encoded, but even title bar text has been changed. It will look like this...

Now the blocked website is unblocked. Encoded URL's that are created by hide my ass remain same permanently. In other words, you can bookmark the above mentioned encoded URl and use it at your convenience.

Encoding is fantastic, but an even better option is the encryption option available on the hide my ass website. The advantage of using the encryption option is that it is a temporary encrypted URL that expires after a set period of time. This means that even in the future, nobody else can view the web pages that may have been visited through it, giving you complete anonymity.

URl obfuscating web proxies are very useful, but they could be blocked by your network administrator. In case they block the popular web proxies, then you can always find new web proxies that have not been blocked by encrypting the URl again and continue to access your favourite blocked websites. It is an endless cat-and-mouse game

It is important to note that if you want to log into any of your online accounts (like facebook, gmail & yahoo), you will need to find and use a web proxy that accepts cookies. Another problem with web proxies is taht many of them do not support JavaScript and SSL encryption, which means that a number of websites will not work. For example, you may not be allowed to watch streaming videos on youtube if scripts are not supported by your proxy.

If all goes well you will be able to get the internet access again and till you want. If you have any queries please ask it into comments.

Thank you