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Proxy Software

  • AlchemyPoint is a user-programmable mashup proxy server that can be used to re-write web pages, emails, instant messenger messages, and other network transmissions on the fly.
  • The Apache HTTP Server can be configured to act as a proxy server.
  • Blue Coat’s (formerly Cacheflow’s) purpose-built SGOS proxies 15 protocols including HTTPS/SSL, has an extensive policy engine and runs on a range of appliances from branch-office to enterprise.
  • Charles is a java User-configurable HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that can be use with Flash Remoting (AMF0 and AMF3).
  • CGIProxy, web based proxy script written in Perl
  • EZproxy is a URL-rewriting web proxy designed primarily for providing remote access to sites that authenticate users by IP address.
  • Glype is a free proxy server written in PHP.
  • ISA Server - A User-configurable web proxy and firewall / VPN product that also offers SOCKS4.3A proxy; used in forward and reverse proxy scenarios.
  • JAP - A local proxy, web anonymizer software connecting to proxy server chains of different organizations
  • Mavis - A peer-to-peer (P2P) proxy sharing program.
  • m0n0wall - lightweight firewall solution along with NAT proxy server, based on UNIX system.
  • Novell BorderManager web proxy server, reverse proxy, Firewall and VPN end point.
  • Nginx Web and Reverse proxy server, that can act as POP3 proxy server.
  • Privoxy is a free, open source web proxy with privacy and ad-blocking features.
  • Proxomitron - User-configurable web proxy used to re-write web pages on the fly. Most noted for blocking ads, but has many other useful features.
  • SafeSquid Linux based, complete content filtering HTTP1.1 proxy, allows distribution of ‘profiled’ internet access.
  • SSH Secure Shell can be configured to proxify a connection, by setting up a SOCKS proxy on the client, and tunneling the traffic through the SSH connection.
  • Sun Java System Web Proxy Server is a caching proxy server running on Solaris, Linux and Windows servers that supports HTTP/S, NSAPI I/O filters, dynamic reconfiguration, SOCKSv5 and reverse proxy.
  • Squid is a popular HTTP proxy server in the UNIX/Linux world.
  • Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP proxy daemon ideal for embedded use on POSIX operating systems.
  • Tor - A proxy-based anonymizing Internet communication system.
  • I2P - A proxy-like decentralized network for anonymizing Internet data transfers.
  • Varnish is designed to be a high-performance caching reverse proxy.
  • WinGate is a multi-protocol proxy server and NAT solution that can be used to redirect any kind of traffic on a Microsoft Windows host.
  • WWWOFFLE has been around since the mid-1990s, and was developed for storing online data for offline use.
  • yProxy is an NNTP proxy server that converts yEnc encoded message attachments to UUEncoding, complete with SSL client support.
  • Ziproxy is a non-caching proxy for acceleration purposes. It recompresses pictures and optimizes HTML code.
  • psiphon turns a regular home computer into a personal, encrypted proxy server. psiphon is free and open source, and comes in Linux and Windows versions. It is easy to install, but if your computer is behind a home router it may require some configuration.
  • Peacefire Circumventor is similar to psiphon, but a bit harder to install.

UltraSurf is free software and is available in English and Chinese. Once started, it opens an Internet Explorer type program that is automatically configured to allow you to browse websites through UltraSurf. Other browsers must be configured manually. The UltraSurf site itself might be blocked, so you may have to download this at home and bring it to school on a flash drive or something.

Similar unblockers:
FreeGate
GPass
HTTP Tunnel
Jap Anon
TOR
I2P

Possibly more proxy software

Sources:
How to unblock Myspace at school
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