Nice! I wrote something similar in node.js a while back; so far it's gotten me banned from Heroku and nodejitsu :p
Why did it got you banned on those services??
Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
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Re: Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
#22I think a slightly more practical approach would be to make an easily self-hosted web proxy with an accompanying Google Chrome (or other) extension that can rewrite all network requests.
Re: Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
#23I think a slightly more practical approach would be to make an easily self-hosted web proxy with an accompanying Google Chrome (or other) extension that can rewrite all network requests.
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Re: Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
#24Nice! I wrote something similar in node.js a while back; so far it's gotten me banned from Heroku and nodejitsu :p
Why did it got you banned on those services??
On Heroku, someone reported my site as being infected with malware that stole peoples Facebook passwords. Heroku took the site offline and notified me. I explained that it was just a web proxy and that there was no malware or stolen passwords. A week or two later they emailed me that I was correct, but they were going to keep my site offline and change their TOS to forbid proxy sites. (As far as I know they never did change their TOS, so GoPee should still be safe.)
On Nodejitsu, someone tweeted links to porn that went through my proxy, and they disabled the site thinking that I was using their service to host porn. The CEO told me that they'd turn it back on if I added user accounts and a way to ban users. But at that point, I had a newborn son and was in no mood to put a bunch of development work into making my anonymous proxy not-so-anonymous.
So, right now, it's still offline. The source is at https://github.com/nfriedly/node-unblocker if anyone's interested.
Re: Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
#25I think a slightly more practical approach would be to make an easily self-hosted web proxy with an accompanying Google Chrome (or other) extension that can rewrite all network requests.
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A fully web-based proxy cannot accept connections as if it was an HTTP or SOCKS proxy. It has to use some hacks (typically using URL redirects) to route the traffic to you. Compatibility with JS/ajax-intensive web apps is quite tricky to achieve.
Glype [1] is an example of web proxy that provides rewriting and customizable plugins to improve compatibility with complex web apps. Not free software but comes with source code (PHP).
Re: Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
#26I get where "Go" comes from, obviously, but I'm confused about "Pee".
My guess would be "Pee" = "P" = "Proxy"
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#27I get where "Go" comes from, obviously, but I'm confused about "Pee".
The title of the page is "Go Pee on your ISP".
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Great start. Your two known deficiencies are pretty big right now: * Doesn't support anything which requires sessions / cookies / logging in, yet * Most AJAX requests don't work since the URLs are not rewritten Don't stop working on it! This is a pretty great project.
Other issues: * It's leaking a lot of information (Google Analytics and a few other domains are being connected to directly instead of going through proxy). This is probably the biggest thing to fix. Offering a "strip all scripts" option may help. * Useragent is set to Go's default. Forwarding the user's user-agent or better yet, a stock browser useragent (Firefox or something) may be better
The default Tor useragent would be perfect for this.
Re: Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
#29Might not be the best of names.
@mkr-hn I understand. But, just check the site title if you haven't already. Maybe that would help see it from a different angle ?
To be honest, I've never actually thought about peeing on my ISP.
But the single most enjoyable experience I've ever had peeing was at Martin's West in Redwood City.
They have an old-fashioned long tray shared urinal like we had in kindergarten, but thankfully I was there early and had the whole thing to myself. And they had just filled the entire tray with crushed ice!
If your aim is good, you can make any pattern you want. I tried for the Mandelbrot but only got a few spirals going. But man, was it fun!
What did you say your open source project does again?
Re: Show HN: GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great start. Your two known deficiencies are pretty big right now: * Doesn't support anything which requires sessions / cookies / logging in, yet * Most AJAX requests don't work since the URLs are not rewritten Don't stop working on it! This is a pretty great project.
Other issues: * It's leaking a lot of information (Google Analytics and a few other domains are being connected to directly instead of going through proxy). This is probably the biggest thing to fix. Offering a "strip all scripts" option may help. * Useragent is set to Go's default. Forwarding the user's user-agent or better yet, a stock browser useragent (Firefox or something) may be better
That first issue isn't really generally fixable, is it? At least, not for a web-based proxy like this.
SOME effort could be made to rewrite URLs found inside of Javascript but that might be a terrible idea in practice.