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How to view websites banned at work or college
Some people are inconvenienced by being unable to view websites due to some form of censorship. Here are some popular ways to get around these restrictions, in order of efficiency. 1. Use the IP address instead of the domain nameThere are two forms of any webite's address: the website domain name and the numeric IP. You could use either. For example, the site you want - for example www.a3webtech.com - is actually at the IP address 89.145.105.67, so you enter that in your browser address bar instead. Just type the numbers straight in and hit Enter, you don't have to do anything else.
This gets around badly-crafted restrictions that only target the domain name. It doesn't always work (and never if the people doing the banning have an IQ over 42), but it's always worth a try. You'll get through sometimes.
You can find the IP for any domain by using an online tool such as this one:
http://baremetal.com/cgi-bin/dnsip
2. Use a proxy serverThis is always the best solution. Just Google for "proxy server", find one, and use their service to view the affected website. It works because you do not request the banned IP, but instead the proxy server's, therefore you escape the ban. Sophisticated firewalls can block this method, but they are not common. Just make sure that the first IP (web address or URL) that you request is an innocent one, such as your locally-approved search engine. Then, when you are established, browse to the banned site.
3. Use an encrypted browsing proxy serviceIf, while using a proxy server, you are blocked by a sophisticated firewall access ban: then change to an encrypted browsing proxy service. You may have to pay for this. This is very difficult to block.
4. Use a search engine's cached pagesYou may just need to check a page or two. This method works for that purpose. Go to a large search engine and perform a search that results in the required website showing in the results. Don't click the main result heading (as you will be blocked); instead, click on "Cache", or "Cached pages from this site". These pages are on the search engine's server, at the search engine's IP, and therefore escape the ban.
5. Use a mobile-website auditing service as a proxy serverThere are one or two websites that provide a service whereby you can check to see how your own website looks on a phone. Instead, don't look at your site, but instead go to the banned site. Works fine, just a little bit, umm, restricted. This works like a 'tiny' proxy server. Here is the most famous of these, the Opera Mini tester:
www. operamini. com/demo/[remove gaps]You'll need a full Java install on your PC to be able to use this. You can download that by searching "Java download", or by going to java.sun.com, the official suppliers.Alternatively, if you append the required URL to the opera mini tester URL like this, you can get the same result (and obviously, change our domain for your required address):
http://www. operamini. com/demo/?url=www.a3webtech.com[remove gaps]Here's another similar site:http:// mtld.mobi/ emulator.php[remove the gaps]6. Use The Internet Archive's WayBack Machine, to view cached pagesSearch for the WayBack Machine. This is an online cache of stored pages from a website's history. Get one from recently and you might find what you need.7. Have a friend email you the site's pagesA friend outside the censor's ban can view the pages from elsewhere and email them to you as a zip file. Your friend can use an offline browsing tool such as GetLeft to download the entire website and send it to you as an encrypted zip file, with an innocent name.
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