http://www.hulu.com.prx.us.teleport.to/ fails, I have a blank page.
Might be a bug on my end, but Hulu is generally very good at detecting proxies and VPNs. Will look into it though.
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#12Ok... so - this is a web proxy service. Am I missing something here or is this all there is to it?
It is indeed a web proxy service with country selection - something that is not addressed by other web proxies AFAIK.
Also, web proxies aren't as trivial as you are implying.
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#13http://www.hulu.com.prx.us.teleport.to/ fails, I have a blank page.
Might be a bug on my end, but Hulu is generally very good at detecting proxies and VPNs. Will look into it though.
I see a lot of syntax errors and "XMLHttpRequest No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://www.hulu.com.prx.us.teleport.to' is therefore not allowed access." in the JavaScript console.
I guess the latter error is to be expected in this case.
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#14Another small error. If you type in an incorrect url all the page does is says "Error".
Example: http://new.google.com.prx.us.teleport.to/
Otherwise it worked great for me. Awesome job
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#15* Is it OK to use this for moderate/high volume stuff?
* Does it use any kind caching?
* Any plans on adding a way to use HTTPS?
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#16* Is it OK to use this for moderate/high volume stuff? * Does it use any kind caching? * Any plans on adding a way to use HTTPS?
> Is it OK to use this for moderate/high volume stuff?
At the moment I am not incredibly confident about the countries where it relies on third-party proxies. Although as the database of proxy IPs grows I'll implement load balancing of sorts to address this. For US, NL, SG and UK it shares the infrastructure with another proxy that used to serve 200K visitors/day without a hitch.
> Does it use any kind caching?
Nope, not yet.
> Any plans on adding a way to use HTTPS?
Absolutely. It's not done yet because it'll make proxy implementation notably more complex and fragile (you can't use proxy domains like youtube.com.prx.us.teleport.to with SSL because you can't buy a cert for ..X domains, only for *.X)
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#17Neat, works great to unblock Youtube videos if you are living in a country where 90% of the music videos are blocked (Germany) and it's rather fast too. Thanks for sharing.
Unblocking YouTube videos is the first thing I tried. It works but it is very slow, so I still prefer to use Tor for that (I can usually download between 500 and 700 kbps using torsock + youtube-dl).
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#18Another small error. If you type in an incorrect url all the page does is says "Error". Example: http://new.google.com.prx.us.teleport.to/ Otherwise it worked great for me. Awesome job
Thank you! HN front page with a buggy site feels like coming to school without your homework. But as Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder) once said, "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late"
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#19China would be very useful. Seem to be getting 500's though
Yeah, I should make China the default in my testing I think - it's certainly the most interesting.
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#20Add https to the beginning and you should be able to see most ecommerce sites, like Amazon.