FreeProxy

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Gordon Darling

FreeProxy

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~gregr/freeproxy.htm
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~gregr/freeproxy.zip

Beta
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~gregr/freeproxy35.htm
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gregrg/freeproxy370.zip

What does it do ?

FreeProxy is professional Freeware which channels requests for internet
pages via a single computer and enables many computers to share an
internet connection. If you have dial-up internet access, you can use
the Demand Dial or Auto-Dial feature to dial up the internet either
when it detects you want to access the internet (demand) or maintain a
strict schedule of connection times (auto). Works fast with
Cable/Broadband.

Safe viewing, restricted access

If you would like to prevent access to certain internet sites,
FreeProxy enables you to block access based on a filter. Comprehensive
'Resource Security' enables you to filter URLs, IP addresses, ports,
hosts accessed. In addition you can secure access using userid and
password. FreeProxy utilises the web standards of Basic and Digest
authentication but also allows you to authenticate users to a Windows
Domain. Access can be limited to certain times using a calendar. This
is very useful if you make use of low-cost access times.

An access report can be switched on to provide a list of the web sites
visited, when and by whom including user names and IP addresses.
Secure access

FreeProxy has implemented a simple security feature to lock down access
to the proxy, "local binding". You can prevent everyone except those on
your local intranet from accessing your web server, proxy or mail
systems.

Web Server as well !

As an added bonus, FreeProxy has a built in web-server which can serve
pages securely to either (only) your intranet or to the internet.
Who uses it ?

FreeProxy is being used in by many companies, universities, schools,
churches, legal practices, accounting practices, banking and the home
with Dial-up ADSL and Cable connections.
Which Operating Systems ?

FreeProxy runs Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. You can run
FreeProxy as a service so its always there and never seen.
Which Client software ?

Too many to mention. Includes Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla,
Outlook/Outlook Express, Eudora, Safari, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, Kazaa,
Filezilla, ICQ plus hundreds more.
FreeProxy and FreeWeb are built into the software and offer the
following:

* HTTP proxy, including FTP over HTTP
* HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, RFC2616 and RFC2518 compliant.
* FTP Proxy
* Demand Dialing, auto connect/disconnect
* URL filtering
* Built-in web server
* Run as a service under 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003
* Message logging and dumping
* TCP tunnel (tunnel any TCP protocol)
* Proxy SMTP & POP email
* Proxy NNTP
* SOCKS 5 proxy
* SOCKS 4/4a proxy
* Basic, Digest and NTLM (Windows) authentication (proxy and www
authentication)
* Resource security
* Connect to another Proxy server or connect directly to the
internet
* Bind to a specific network interface for added security ("local
binding")
* Control access using a calendar
* Outlook Express / Hotmail compatible
* Works with Dial-up Networking and Cable/Broadband

System requirements:

Freeproxy Client and Server: Windows 98, 98SE, NT4 (Workstation/Server)
SP4 or later, Windows 2000 Professional, 2000 Server, XP Professional,
Server 2003.

Will not work on Win 95.

V3.6 Compliancy

RFC2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

Specific compliancy includes

* Persistent connections
* Chunked encoding
* No caching is done at all
* Allows CONNECT to tunnel through the proxy (https:// access)
* All methods processed correctly
* Does not recognise multipart/byteranges (yet)

RFC2518: HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV

* All methods passed through
* No caching of requests

RFC959: File Transfer Protocol

* Freeproxy will retrieve files from FTP over HTTP servers but not
store files. Access via Browser running http.
* Using the FTP proxy, FreeProxy will send and receive files.
* Can use both passive and non-passive modes.

RFC2617: Basic & Digest Authentication

RFC1928: SOCKS 5

SOCKS 4: A protocol for TCP Proxy across firewalls: Ying-Da Lee

SOCKS 4a: A simple extension to SOCKS 4 protocol: Ying-Da Lee

RFC1929: Username /Password authentication for SOCKSV5

Windows Authentication using NTLM or FreeProxy's own user database

Regards
Gordon
 

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