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joshdick / miniProxy

🚨⚠️ UNMAINTAINED! ⚠️🚨 A simple PHP web proxy.
http://joshdick.github.io/miniProxy
GNU General Public License v3.0
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How does it work? #140

Closed petrk94 closed 4 years ago

petrk94 commented 4 years ago

I have tested it and it works, but how it work? Which IP address is shown to the website? What header get sent with? How anonymous its working?

A more detailed manual would be fine before its a good idea to use it.

Thanks

stackprogramer commented 4 years ago

hi, I had same question, which ip and port for proxy is used?

joshdick commented 4 years ago

The requesting IP address sent to websites is the IP of the machine that miniProxy is running on, rather than the end user's (your own) IP. miniProxy acts as a middleman that hides your IP from web servers in most cases.

I feel that a detailed explanation of how web proxies work is beyond the scope of this project, since it is just one specific web proxy of many that are out there, and I feel that one should research what web proxies are and how they work before using any web proxy.

That said, this article may help: https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-web-proxy-3481607

petrk94 commented 4 years ago

@joshdick Hi, thanks for the response. Of course I know how a proxy work, but not every github project is worth to use in production, thats why I want to know how it works, because there is no documentation (dont mean the comments in code), where its explained how its working etc. So Im glad its working, but I want to be sure that the script is doing what it is intended to do.