Friday, October 23, 2009

A way to access picasaweb

Well, Great Fire Wall caused trouble again. Picasa web was blocked, I tried FoxyProxy+Tor, doesn't work at all. Fortunately Google search engine still works, find a very interesting solution posted by "ylyner" on Jul 28. Edit "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts", add in below lines:
#picasaweb.google.com
203.208.39.104 lh1.ggpht.com
203.208.39.104 lh2.ggpht.com
203.208.39.104 lh3.ggpht.com
203.208.39.104 lh4.ggpht.com
203.208.39.104 lh5.ggpht.com
203.208.39.104 lh6.ggpht.com
You are now connected to your web photoes. Please try mine

Saturday, October 10, 2009

How to visit blogspot from behind GFW

One of the disadvantage leaving GE is I am not able to visit my blog via my ADSL link, it is blocked by the Great Firewall :( Thanks to open source community, there is a way to bypass GFW by using Firefox + FoxyProxy + Tor bundle. You can download PortableTor-0.2.1.19-0.1.15-0.exe from sourceforge, after extracting the downloaded file, please run PortableTor.exe application, most likely, you will get an error for the first time, the error log is "connect to relay directory failed", by click "更换身份" button in Vidalia control panel, connecting to Tor network will be accomplish in a while. Ok, please select tools->FoxyProxy->Options, select File->Tor Wizard, don't use Privoxy, use default port number, use Tor to receive DNS request. After configuration, there will be another window pop up for you to configure the proxy, by clicking "adding new template", you will be able to input the template name and URL, for blogspot case, I need to add two templates, URL for template 1 is *.blogspot.com/*, and the other is *.blogger.com/*. Finally, you need to enable FoxyProxy to use this template by choosing "使用基于其预定义模板的代理服务器". Now you are in blogspot