What is Proxymizer, by the way?
Why using it?
The Internet use can cause two problems:
- Ensure that your Internet provider won't censor your traffic because you ask for specific URLs (assuming your traffic is legal, of course).
- Ensure that the server won't collect personal information, such as your IP address.
The solution for both problems is of course to use a proxy to bypass specific censorship and to avoid being spied.
So now we have two new problems
- Where to find a proxy?
- How to tell if we can use them (and they don't send our personal information)?
This is where Proxymizer comes: it find public proxy servers (a lot), tests them against reliability and confidentiality and uses them as relays. You just use Proxymizer as your proxy, it handles the rest of the job.
Principles
A drawing being worth a thousand words, here's the first idea:
Basically, proxymizer is a proxy relay.
It is:
- Seen as a proxy (HTTP with or without tunneling)
- Able to connect to one or many other proxy servers (HTTP or SOCKS)
- Use one different proxy server per request. Here are a few samples:
- Example 1: when loading an HTML page with different objets, each objet is requested via a different proxy, depending on each proxy ability.
- Example 2: when using an application that connects to many others, each connection goes through the most available proxy.
- Use indifferently any proxy type (HTTP with or without tunneling or SOCKS).
- It downloads proxy servers list from public pages.
- It checks every added hosts for speed and availability.
Limitations
The following limitations are present, and probably won't change:
- Public proxy servers can not be trusted. Using them still requires communication encryption (SSL) if you want full security.
- Proxymizer does not alter HTTP messages, so your cookies, your browser specifications are not obfuscated (that's not the job).
- If no public proxy servers are found and validated, then the application just doesn't work.
