Get around geographics blocks on online content

[Fender]

Full disclosure: I haven't tried this myself.

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ ... st/c0fng0n

For Canadian/International Viewers: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967 then:

1) In Firefox, Go to tools->modify headers
2) From the drop down box on the left select add
3) Then enter: "X-Forwarded-For" in the first input box without the quotation marks
4) Enter: "12.13.14.15" in the second input box without the quotation marks
5) Leave the last input box empty, and save the filter, and enable it http://imgur.com/Feb4.png
6) Click the 'Configuration' tab on the right then proceed to check the 'always on' button.
Close the Modify Headers box and it should work.

Works for TheDailyShow.com, southparkstudios.com, and ColbertNation.com as well as any embedded videos.

[feedback]

I'm going to try this now. Go fuck yourself, chink government.

[feedback]

hrm, it isn't compatible with new firefox

[EtUL]

3.5.5 did just come out eh?

[Survivor]

Have to use that to get the daily show in the uk here since channel4od sucks for me. It's been working for well over a month now though and still works.

[plained]

yhx 4 heads up gonna try it later!

[seremtan]

seems to work with TDS, but what about yootoob?

[7zark7]

Works !

Thanks fender

[EtUL]

What's the logic behind that anyway?

[Fender]

http://tinyurl.com/ous5lo

[PhoeniX]

Nice trick. Surely it's going to get patched now that everyone knows about it? The author should have kept quiet!

[^misantropia^]

What's the logic behind that anyway?

Those sites use a reverse proxy application server setup. Your browser talks to the internet-facing reverse proxy and the proxy forwards the request to the actual application server, adding a X-Forwarded-For header so the application server can determine the origin (that is, your IP address). The bug in their setup is that the reverse proxy doesn't strip that header from incoming requests.

So enjoy it while you can because these holes will probably be plugged soon.