Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Web Proxy Redirector [BETA]

Current Version is in BETA

What is it?
This hack was designed to prevent users from using a web based proxy such as http://www.dontfilter.us/ to circumvent a IP address ban. It uses javascript to determine if the current domain matches the forum's domain. If it does not match, then it redirects the user to the website of your choosing. If the proxy strips the javascript code, then the forum will not be visible to the user, and a error message will be shown.

Effectiveness
This has been tested and has blocked at least 90% of all web proxies. Best of all, this hack requires no template hacks. The hack is completely self-contained in the product file.
Phrases are used for the informational messages.

Instructions
Instructions are included in the zip file.

Demonstration
For a demonstration, you may attempt to visit my forum http://www.isosdcftp.com through a web proxy such as http://www.dontfilter.us/.

History

• Version 1.0

  Original Code

• Version 1.2

  Increased Proxy Detection massively. Good luck finding a working proxy.
  Increased Browser Compatability by using the widely supported writeln function
  Obfuscated Javascript code to confuse parsers such as the one in use at xroxy.com
  Decreased javascript code size slightly

• Version 1.2.1

  Fixed Broken Javascript code

• Version 1.2.2

  Fixed Settings Panel problem
  Fixed compatibility issue with Hellcat's Realtime Page Compressor
  

Known Bugs
Not compatible with Safari

Special thanks goes to rjmjr69
Please provide feedback

[kiwivc]

Installed on 3.6.8 PL2 and appeared to work well. Unfortunately it does not stop traffic from Beijing HeJu ShuZi Telecom Engineering Co.Ltd., No7 dongsanhuan Zhong Lu, chaoyang District beijing. Also this mod interferes with my 'quick reply' and 'multi quote'. If I disable this mod then both my quick reply and multi quote buttons work. I may have to uninstall

EDIT: I've left it installed but disabled.

[xxalexkimxx]

Very nice mod...Loving it!

[xxalexkimxx]

I not sure if this is true or not because since I install this Mods I started to lose the search from google and other searching site: yahoo or msn.com
My site was pretty good at the very specific keywords and will be on the first list when you search it. Now after a few days it's all gone from the search. I think it's because google robots and others are using proxy to crawl the site. So I wouldn't use this mod!

But it's very nice and useful mod for others, it would be useful for others, but just not for me hehe
Thank you I still love your mod.

Alex,:up:

[xxalexkimxx]

Originally Posted by KMDPEPSI

I dont know if this has been pointed out or not, I installed this worked nicely ez to install and everything. I checked a bunch of proxy sites and it works great. However if someone is searching for your website on google or stumbles upon an interesting post and wants to enter your site through google or any other search engine, it stopes them from viewing it saying proxies are not allowed on this site.... So i uninstalled it for that reason alone. Otherwise a great mod despite it blocking "honest" users using search engines and wherever else your site is linked.

hope that made sense :/

Thank you for pointing this out...I have the same too, and I saw this post after I posted the same problems...
It's because google robots and others are using proxy, so this is proxy block! Now I feel so sad about losing all this search ((

[GreigScott]

I'm a idiot, I tested it on a proxy, now I've banned myself. seriously, i'm a idiot. LOL, I would of used but i had to uninstall (N).

[Aspergillus]

Dear m8's,

This is a very nice Add-on.

As i did not want this to affect visitors and search engine bots i changed the code of the plugin a little bit

global $vbphrase, $vbulletin;

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
Rest of the Code
}

So it will affect logged in users only.

Next step is:
Redirect Users to a php script of my own wich logs the attempt..
with username and proxy ip and then redirects the user to google.

So It will affects only loged in users that try to use webproxy.. and even tells me what user it was.

Great Stuff Thank you!

Greez Aspi

Edit: you say Safari not supported.. At least with Safari for Windows it works fine.

[Semere79]

Originally Posted by Aspergillus

Dear m8's,

This is a very nice Add-on.

As i did not want this to affect visitors and search engine bots i changed the code of the plugin a little bit

global $vbphrase, $vbulletin;

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
Rest of the Code
}

So it will affect logged in users only.

Next step is:
Redirect Users to a php script of my own wich logs the attempt..
with username and proxy ip and then redirects the user to google.

So It will affects only loged in users that try to use webproxy.. and even tells me what user it was.

Great Stuff Thank you!

Greez Aspi

Edit: you say Safari not supported.. At least with Safari for Windows it works fine.

I would be interested in seeing your code you use to log the username proxy and IP...

[Lilmikeishere]

I use 3.8.1 vBulletin version and this works for me. (:

[tony42018]

working fine with 3.7.5 cheers

[HFB]

Does anyone know how to edit the plugin so it's only invoked on the registration page? I tried moving it to the register_start hook to no avail. Thanks