In article <20011128232318.A7944200@exeter.ac.uk>,
Adam Back
I noticed some discussion of the SafeWeb cancellation of free services here.
ZKS announced yesterday freedom websecure, which is an anonymous web browsing system with more robust redirection and script blocking than systems that rely on html re-writing. There is a free trial offered for a couple of months.
http://www.freedom.net/products/websecure/
Unfortunately it only works as shipped with IE on windows in this version.
But there's an unofficial, open-source Linux client also available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/websecure4linux/ An excerpt from the README: ---8<---8<---8<--- WebSecure4Linux This is a really simple, quick-and-dirty Linux client for the Freedom(r) WebSecure service from Zero-Knowledge Systems. (See http://www.freedom.net/products/websecure/ for more info.) Note that you will need to sign up for the service by obtaining a WebSecure activation code and creating a user account and password before this client will operate. Trial activation codes, available until the end of January 2002, can be obtained from: http://www.freedom.net/trial.html Activation codes are sent to your e-mail address. (Once your account has been created, you might want to skip the client download. Unless, of course, you also run Windows.) *** IMPORTANT *** This is not supported by Zero-Knowledge Systems AT ALL; it's completely unofficial. You can try to get support at the SourceForge project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/websecure4linux/ Right now, it supports http, and on linux 2.4, https as well. It shouldn't be hard to get the latter to work on 2.2 as well. This program is covered by the GPL; see the file "COPYING" for details. Some extra notes: It's not feature-complete. It doesn't manage your cookies, for example. [The tricky bit is just that this code forks *a lot*, and you'd need to put all the cookie info in persistent files, and put good locks around all accesses to them.] It's not speedy. Your performance will suck. It's written in perl, and forks for each web connection. It's not supported. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. ---8<---8<---8<--- Have fun! - Ian