Mini Mods - Prevent guests/users from using proxies at your forum

This hack will allow you to prevent guests/users from using proxies at your forum. You can dissallow proxies for the forum as a whole or to prevent only registrations with proxies. You can enable and disable it at the Acp of your forum where you can control the settings for the mod.

Note: As you know there is no such way of preventing proxies 100% but it helps a lot. I tested it with a dozen proxies and it stopped 8 of them.

[djbaxter]

So does this mean all AOL users are blocked?

[vb4newb]

Clicked installed, voted and nominated, awesome hack and much needed for ban evaders.

[KissOfDeath]

will this top search engine spiders? the last on i had on vb3 did

[Vaupell]

guess i wont be visiting either from work,
entire work lan around 5000 employess wont be able to acces.
Every server and computer from "inside" is run through a few proxy gateways.

and im sure there are many many coorperations who run like this to
control in and outs of their net.

Just thinking you might have good intentions and want to block spam etc,
but you also endup blocking users who have good intentions.

EDIT : a little read, the number 2 on this page.
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=da&lr...e&ved=0CAwQkAE

Proxy server :
•A hardware server that acts as an intermediary between a work station user and the Internet so that an enterprise can ensure security

[vb4newb]

Tested this with a few online proxies and worked both times, big thanks.

[dacho]

If I want only prevent only the users ? not guests

[borbole]

I don''t think that it should have any effect on search engine spiders. What this hack does, is it checks port 80 and 443 for an open reply which indicates that a user is using proxy. It is meant to block the ban evaders as mentioned above or other uers that might have malicious intents when visiting your forum with a proxy.

@vb4newb and @vb4newb, thanks for your comments and for clicking the Install button.

[borbole]

It kinda prevents the users as well since they will have to load your forum as guests first in order to log in. I could have made it that it affects once you are logged in but I thought this way was better.

[barcena]

I will love to have this running on my site but unfortunately I will appear myself as behind a proxy, I do have another mod that tells you when somebody is trying to hide the real IP and turns out I'm on the list, and I know I'm not hiding, so as nice as this mod is it will be a real problem since it will prevent legitimate members to log in.