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Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:58 am
by 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.
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:07 am
by feedback
I'm going to try this now. Go fuck yourself, chink government.
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:09 am
by feedback
hrm, it isn't compatible with new firefox
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:10 am
by EtUL
3.5.5 did just come out eh?
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:35 pm
by 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.
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:55 pm
by plained
yhx 4 heads up gonna try it later!
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:31 pm
by seremtan
seems to work with TDS, but what about yootoob?
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:09 pm
by 7zark7
Works !
Thanks fender
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:28 pm
by EtUL
What's the logic behind that anyway?
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:29 pm
by Fender
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:25 am
by PhoeniX
Nice trick. Surely it's going to get patched now that everyone knows about it? The author should have kept quiet!
Re: Get around geographics blocks on online content
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:10 am
by ^misantropia^
EtUL wrote: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.
