First Things First: How to bypass the ban

[drpa...@gmail.com]

To view any blogspot blog you want and bypass the ban, go to
http://proxify.com. At this site, you can type in the url of the blog
you want to visit and it will take you there, completely bypassing the
firewall effecting the ban.

In order to post convienently, download blogger for word. This is an
add-on to MS Word that allows you to type your blog post into Word,
click on a button and have MS Word communicate directly with the
blogger servers, thereby enabling you to bypass the firewall. I've
actually been using it for many months. It's far more convienent that
going to the blogger.com site directly and posting from there.

NOTE: If you can't find the blogger for word extension outside the
blocked blogger.com site, feel free to email me at drpak-at-gmail.com
and I'll email the extention to you.

[sunshi...@hotmail.com]

i went to my blog through this but even then i cant see the comments
that have been made in my site , what ca i do to see them.

[Danial Ahmed]

sunshine,

For Internet Explorer: Right click on the comments and select 'Copy
Shortcut' and paste it to your browser's address bar.

For Firefox: Right Click and select 'Copy Link Location' and then
paste it to your browser's address bar.

Go.

Danial

[sunshi...@hotmail.com]

i cant even see my comment icon so dont know what to paste in my
browser add bar, any other suggestions.

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

Hi Everyone,

i've posted this at Global Voices as well, there IS a SIMPLE way to get
around the filters:

just append the blog url by adding: nyud.net:8080 or port 8090

so :

http://blogspot.com:8080

or

http://blogspot.com:8090

for example this blog:
http://darkcoldcoffee.blogspot.com/2006/03/censorship-but-in-wrong-direction.html

can be accessed by typing in:

http://darkcoldcoffee.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/2006/03/censorship-but-in-wrong-direction.html

I suggest bloggers in pakistan using port 8090 from now onwards because
port 8080 is receving a lot of traffic atm.

I've got in touch with the teams at blogger.com (blogger buzz, bloger
status and blogger development network) and they should be getting back
to us with some alternatives.

cheers,
angelo.

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

sorry i missed out a bit on the main url:

it's http://blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090

cheers!

[drpa...@gmail.com]

Thanks Angelo the nyud.net:8090 thing is working, albeit very slowly.
Do let us know when other alternatives pop up.

Can someone also put up a list of IP anonymisers we can use?

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

Chinese bloger Anti is putting up a list of IP proxies that can be
used. Also he's suggested this: www.hidemyass.com

Since port 8090 on the url is slow, please try this:

http://66.102.15.100.nyud.net:8090
or
http://66.102.15.100.nyud.net:8080

Pls let me know how this goes.

cheers,
angelo.

PS: ITI have blocked ip 66.102.15.101 & not 66.102.15.100 , btw
google's blogger team might issue alternate ips.

[Dr. Awab Alvi]

A list of anonymous proxies IP's can be found at

http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

Cheers

On 3/5/06, Dr. Awab Alvi <dra...@cyber.net.pk> wrote:

A list of anonymous proxies IP's can eb found at

http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

Cheers

[Ovais]

You can find a lot of ways to access blogspot blogs at the following
resources:
http://www.zensur.freerk.com/
http://cetamac.blogspot.com/2006/01/other-ways-for-browsing-blogspotcom.html
(http://cetamac.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/2006/01/other-ways-for-browsing-blogspotcom.html)
http://www.boingboing.net/censorroute.html

You can also use the Coral CDN as discussed earlier.

And, one of my favourites and fastest methods is the translation proxy
hack: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807
Details are avaiable here:
http://ovais.khan.tripod.com/blogspot_blocked.html

regards,
Ovais
http://ovaiskhan.blogspot.com/ (via google translation proxy:
http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=http://ovaiskhan.blogspot.com)

[Zainub]

Another way of by passing the block: VTunnel.com

[Zainub]

Sorry that got send to you by mistake, was meant to be send to Desicritics, apoligies.

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

http://hidemyass.com/free_proxy_lists.php?sort=DESC&country=1&limit=100

i suggest using proxies located in Turkey & Qatar as they're closer to
Pakistan, however the list here is long and updated in realtime.

[EpHeMeRaL]

USe google transltion service. type url of ur blog in google search.
when the result comes ask google to translate ur site into english for
u. simple and fast way.
u can use proxies or configure ur connectionn to route them through
proxies. i have found the Codeen network to be the fastest. But the
problem is u cant use the post function there.

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

About commenting yusing CDN, actually it works there too.. but you
need to know the post id and blog id...

for example, here's Neha's blog - Gloabl Voices' South Asia Editor's blog:
http://www.blogger.com.nyud.net:8080/comment.g?blogID=7579662&postID=114143027639482440&isPopup=true

using the url above, try commenting there..

if it doesn't work, please let me know...

the easy way to post comments using CDN, is right click on the
comments link, append it with the nyud bit in teh browser address bar
and hit enter.

cheers,
angelo.

[Ovais Khan]

In order to provide an easy work-around the blockade of blogspot blogs in Pakistan, I have written a simple firefox extension "httProxy " using which you can access any blocked page using the pre-defined set of proxies with a handy button beside the location bar and options on context menus.

The extension, configuration and user guide is avaiable here: http://httproxy.mozdev.org/installation.html

The extension is attached since the download mirror will be updated by 0500 PST tomorrow. Comments, questions and future features can be sent to ovais dot khan at gmail dot com

regards,

--
Ovais Khan
http://ovaiskhan.blogspot.com (http://ovaiskhan.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8080)

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

Thank you Ovais for the ff extension - much appreciated!

And i guess it a great time for everyone who doesn't have firefox, to
download the latest version - 1.5 here:
http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-1.5.0.1&os=win&lang=en-US

Ovais, is it possible to throw in pre-defined proxy values on a weekly
basis, and update the download on the ff extensions page until someone
else contributes to making the extension user-defined? Maybe later on
we could do a simple auto-fetch for new proxy listings from the
extension on the task bar.

thanks,
angelo.

[Ovais]

The extension is already hosted on mozdev (http://httproxy.mozdev.org).
I have requested for addition at addons.mozilla.org, but this hasn't
approved yet. I have heard it will take them pretty long to list it as
they have long queues.

Auto-fetching proxy list is a good idea and is on my list of todo's; as
is user-defined proxies, supporting more proxy types (that use hashes
instead of URLs) and auto access of configured pages via default proxy,
but do won't have time for the next couple of weeks. Anyone who can
spend some time on these features is welcome, we can easilly
collaborate via mozdev.

regards,
Ovais

[KO]

This is a nice extension. very usefull.

thanks

[Ice]

Great extension. Thanks.