How to access blocked web sites from school, office, or work using JAP

Posted on December 27, 2007 at 6:32 am

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Looking for a way to access blocked websites like Orkut, YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook, etc from school or work? Most people end up trying out the million or so proxy servers out there, but those are usually dead ends. Also, those proxy servers are very slow and it can take a year for a single web page to load sometimes! There’s luckily an easier way to access blocked websites that doesn’t rely on proxy servers!

JAP is a free open-source software tool that can be used to browse the web anonymously and unobservably. Whenever you browse the Internet, your IP uniquely identifies your computer and your location to the requesting servers, thereby reducing your privacy. JAP uses a single static IP address for many JAP users, thereby making it impossible for the visited website or any sniffer to determine which user visited.

The extra benefit that we can also get out of using JAP other than anonymous browsing is the fact that it can be used to access blocked web sites! That’s because all requests are first passed to JAP servers, then the requested sites are retrieved from their servers. Basically, for the local servers that control your access, it looks as if you’re always requesting something from the JAP web site, not FaceBook or MySpace, etc.

Here’s how to setup JAP: first download the JAP app from the link above. Install it and make sure it’s up and running. Then all you have to do is change some of the settings in Internet Explorer or Firefox. You have to change the LAN Settings so that the Default Gateway is 127.0.0.1 and the port is 4001.

In IE, click on Tools, then Internet Options, and click on the Connections tab.

If you’re connecting to the Internet using a dial-up, modem, or ISDN connection, choose your connection and then click on the Settings button at the top. If you’re connected permanently using a LAN, Cable or DSL connection, click on the Settings button under Local Area Network (LAN) settings heading.

Check the Proxy Server box and type in the IP address and port number shown above.

For Firefox, you click on Tools, then Options, and then click on the Advanced tab. Under Connection, click on Settings.

Click on Manual Proxy Configuration and enter in the same information. Check the box to use this proxy for all protocols. You can also download a cool plugin in Firefox called SwitchProxy that will allow you to quickly switch between JAP and normal browsing.

You should now be able to access blocked web sites while JAP is running. However, if you are at the office or at school and the only ports that are open are port 80, and 443, then JAP won’t work without a little more tweaking.

In JAP under “Config/InfoService“, change the port from 6543 to 80
Go to the “Config/Anonymity” page. Click on the “Fetch” button and choose the “Dresden-Dresden” cascade from the drop down menu.
Select the “Manual Configuration” radio button and change the Anon-Port from 6544 to 443

Now try to activate the anonymous web access. If you’re able to connect, you’ll now be able to browse web sites using the normal web access ports so even if your company or school blocks all other ports, you’ll still be able to access JAP.

Also, if your company forces you to access the web through a proxy server, then you’ll need to configure that in JAP. You can see if you have to go through a proxy server by checking out the values in the above LAN settings section. If it’s greyed out with something already in there when you tried to change it to 127.0.0.1, that means you’re going through a proxy server.

In that case, in JAP you need to do the following:

Activate the checkbox under “Config/Proxy-Firewall” and enter the address of the required proxy. Some proxies require a user authorization. If this is the case, activate the appropriate checkbox and enter the User ID. (First try it without authorization and only do this step if it doesn’t work.)
Under “Config/InfoService“, change the port number from 6543 to “80″.
Go to the “Config/Anonymity” page. Click on the “Fetch” button and choose the “Dresden-Dresden” cascade from the drop down menu.

You should now be able to connect to the JAP service and access any web site that you like! If that was too technical or something was not explained clearly, please post a comment and I will try to help as much as possible! Enjoy!

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19 Responses to “How to access blocked web sites from school, office, or work using JAP”

cybersix said on : December 28th, 2007 at 6:33 am

i’m gonna try this one..before this..i’m using proxy to access unblock site..

Paul S. said on : December 28th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

One problem I found, though. I don’t have administrator rights which means I can’t download any programs. Actually, I can download them, I just can’t install them.

akishore said on : December 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

Cybersix, did it work out for you??

Paul - That is a problem! I don’t think there really is any way to get around it unless you can someone convince someone to let you log on as Administrator for some reason! Sorry!

Madhur Kapoor said on : January 1st, 2008 at 1:40 am

This tool is great. A fav among hostel students like me.

kristen said on : January 9th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

i want to get on myspace but its blocked can you help????????

akishore said on : January 9th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Kristen,

Did you try out the steps above to access the block MySpace site?

tasha said on : January 15th, 2008 at 6:51 am

hey has any1 got any websites to gte on bebo all the prokys are blockd help me

matt said on : January 18th, 2008 at 3:38 am

i need help getting on bebo

tasha said on : February 1st, 2008 at 5:05 am

even if i do get on the website i want i cant read my emails help me plz

Betty said on : March 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm

I tried that… But it didn’t work! Why? Anyway i think it’s better to allow other people do their job and help us with our problems. So I’ve got OpenVPN account from http://strongvpn.com it’s paid one, but with their perfect support it’s not a big problem.

Stephen LaFond said on : April 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 am

Check out http://www.proxylord.com to access blocked web sites. It is very fast and secure. Works on Youtube also!

curly said on : April 11th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

i want to go on myspace at school, but they blocked it!! ive tried using proxy servers but they all seemed to be blocked!! i want to try JAP out but idk if it will get me in trouble help plz!!

Abhinav said on : April 13th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

m not able to connect to connect to any web site in my office…. mozilla says that The proxy server is refusing connections…. plz let me know what to do??????

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