Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi everyone

i know that there are a couple of anonymous web browsing services out there like http://nonymouse.com/anonwww.html

anybody knows what modules are used to create those?
i'm trying to do this for a school project

so any hints and leads would be much appreciated

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Re: Anonymous Web browsing
by jepri (Parson) on Jul 20, 2002 at 10:30 UTC
    All anonymising services are proxies that are carefully configured not to reveal particulars of the client while they do their business.

    For examples, you may wish to examine the Perl program FilterProxy which does exactly this.

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Re: Anonymous Web browsing
by dree (Monsignor) on Jul 20, 2002 at 13:34 UTC
    jepri is right: you need an http proxy placed in another machine that navigate for you the target address (in this way the remote server knows only the ip of the proxy machine).

    Good point to start are 2 http proxies made in Perl: wsproxy: Perl Web Proxy and mine http wrapper
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      and what about anonymizer.com?

      for example:
      http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.perlclub.tk

      yes it has a principle of proxy but it can be done without
      a proxy server imho (cgi script != deamon)

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        A proxy is "A technique used to cache information on a Web server and acts as an intermediary between a Web client and that Web server".

        My http wrapper is a CGI (not a daemon) that "acts as an intermediary between a Web client and that Web server" using LWP.

        In this way my (remote, for the client) CGI navigate for you (the client) the target URL, hiding (for the server that hosts the target URL) the ip of the client (like anonymizer).
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Re: Anonymous Web browsing
by mitd (Curate) on Jul 21, 2002 at 05:43 UTC
    merlyn has a old Web Techniques article that can be found here . Everything you need to know to get you started.

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Re: Anonymous Web browsing
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 20, 2002 at 19:57 UTC
    I've used this before and it works pretty nice
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