Trivial uses of Telnet - Anonymity

HTTP via Proxies

Among other things proxy servers allow you to request pages through them, this has the double advantage of being faster if the website is slower to respond than the proxy could supply the data, but also if the proxy is anonomous the website you are requesting data from will see the proxy as making the request and not yourself.

Making a request via a proxy is quite simple, you just need to replace the / with a full path - for the most part it really is that simple.

GET http://www.example.com/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Host: www.example.com
Connection: Close


Always remember that the majority of the proxy servers out there are a mix of both publically available proxies intended to be used, and proxies that are not supposed to be available but haven't been configured correctly and so are. You may find yourself looking for a new list every so often - if anononymity is important to you, do remember to check that the proxy is actually anonomous and is not just saying it is!

Wingates - what they can do for you

A wingate is a service that allows you to establish connections to remote machines through the service, in effect providing an anonomous connection on your behalf, one established the wingate connection then becomes transparent to yourself - you do not need to worry about it and you are presented with a screen identical to the one you would have got if you connected directly yourself.

When you finally connect to a wingate you get a small prompt which simply says wingate, from here you can specify where you want to connect to next by using the standard syntax of ipaddr:port.

WinGate>127.0.0.1:23
Connecting now... Connected!
WinGate>10.0.0.100:80
GET http://www.example.com/ HTTP/1.0


Remember that the majority of the wingates out in the wild are not actually supposed to be accessible by the public but are simply mis-configured, so if one suddenly disappears or you find yourself being denied access one day that is one of the risks you take when you borrow a wingate!

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