Administrative and Maintenance Tools - 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.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Sajeth

Pretty useless mod, as it will only detect low privacy proxies that forward client information - people that use proxies for anonymity measures which provide a standard level of security wont be detected by this. Try it out for yourself.

There are like millions of proxies out there. There is no way to detect all of them.

[Sajeth]

Originally Posted by borbole

There are like millions of proxies out there. There is no way to detect all of them.

Exactly.
This mod is useless, as it wont detect any actual proxies but just block registration access for everyone using a low-anonymity-proxy sometimes necessary for working within special networks or given to you by some providers.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by Sajeth

Exactly.
This mod is useless, as it wont detect any actual proxies but just block registration access for everyone using a low-anonymity-proxy sometimes necessary for working within special networks or given to you by some providers.

Then don''t use it. Instead of repeating yourself like a broken record, either find another mod, or create your own. What can I say.

[Sajeth]

Originally Posted by borbole

Then don''t use it. Instead of repeating yourself like a broken record, either find another mod, or create your own. What can I say.

I just wanted to point out that its pretty useless and annoying to have this mod installed since it will only bug legit users and not those using anonym proxies.
Didnt mean to offend you, but... thats just the way it is. Besides, a fsockopen on every page load seems like a really, REALLY bad idea... I mean REALLY bad. And basically youre blocking everyone with port 80 forwarded, which seems like an idea far worse...

Technically there is no real possibility to find out wether a user is using an anonym proxy or not. You'll have to rely on your mods if you have troublemakers coming again and again...

[BlackHoster]

Great thank you ...works even with VB4
INSTALLED

[kevinkun]

umm, I was in china a few weeks ago...
& I was trying to access my forums through the internet access I had there...

but the modification prevented me.. because apparently I was using a proxy...

what should I do?

[D_light]

tnx mate good job...

[EvilLinux]

I love this plugin, and I made it even a bit more fun for people who think that proxing through other servers is smart:

Edit this code:

<phpcode><![CDATA[if ($vbulletin->options['no_proxy_enable'])
		{
		if( @fsockopen( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], 80, $errstr, $errno, 1 ) || @fsockopen( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], 443, $errstr, $errno, 1 ))
        {
		standard_error(fetch_error('no_proxy_message'));
		}
		}]]></phpcode>
		</plugin>
		<plugin active="1" executionorder="5">
			<title><![CDATA[No Proxy Allowed.]]></title> 
			<hookname>global_start</hookname>
			<phpcode><![CDATA[if ($vbulletin->options['no_proxy_allowed_enable'])
		{
		if( @fsockopen( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], 80, $errstr, $errno, 1 ) || @fsockopen( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], 443, $errstr, $errno, 1 ))
        {
		standard_error(fetch_error('no_proxy_allowed_message'));
		}
		}]]></phpcode>

And where it says:

 {
		standard_error(fetch_error('no_proxy_message'));
		}

and

{
		standard_error(fetch_error('no_proxy_allowed_message'));
		}

Replace it with this to forward to any site, page or w/e you want:

header( 'Location: http://www.yourwebsitehere.com' ) ;

Hope the author doesn't mind me posting this, had some fun with adding this to our use of the plugin. Which I will add is a GREAT blocking for any and all proxy servers, thank you very much for making this!

[mp3president]

Sorry, dislike this mod because a lot of problems without using proxy.
I'll keep on working this problem manualy.

[Max Taxable]

Got it, installed it, and it works.

3.8.6

Thanks!