MOTORCYCLE

> My employers have improved the web filter to remove access to google
> groups, amongst other sites[1]. Lord only knows why.
>
> Anyway, I intend to rectify this by, hopefully, installing some sort of
> PHP/Apache-based web access to Usenet of my own, ideally on my little Linksys

> NSLU2 at home, so I can just https: to my ADSL IP address and post away.
>
> Are there any decent Perl/PHP/Python/etc web-based usenet readers out there,
> or am I simply imagining that they exist?

> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:23:16 +0000, simonk wrote:
>
>> My employers have improved the web filter to remove access to google
>> groups, amongst other sites[1]. Lord only knows why.
>>
>> Anyway, I intend to rectify this by, hopefully, installing some sort of
>> PHP/Apache-based web access to Usenet of my own, ideally on my little
>> Linksys
>> NSLU2 at home, so I can just https: to my ADSL IP address and post away.
>>
>> Are there any decent Perl/PHP/Python/etc web-based usenet readers out
>> there,
>> or am I simply imagining that they exist?
>
>
> Do you have a Mac at home? You could install leafnode [1] on it and tunnel
> from work.
>
> [1] Checks to see if it will compile onna Mac.
>
> Yup. http://www.leafnode.org/doc en/FAQ.html#id2515754

>
> My employers have improved the web filter to remove access to google
> groups, amongst other sites[1]. Lord only knows why.
>
> Anyway, I intend to rectify this by, hopefully, installing some sort of
> PHP/Apache-based web access to Usenet of my own, ideally on my little Linksys
> NSLU2 at home, so I can just https: to my ADSL IP address and post away.
>

> simonk wrote:
>> My employers have improved the web filter to remove access to google
>> groups, amongst other sites[1]. Lord only knows why.
>>
>> Anyway, I intend to rectify this by, hopefully, installing some sort of
>> PHP/Apache-based web access to Usenet of my own, ideally on my little
Linksys
>> NSLU2 at home, so I can just https: to my ADSL IP address and post away.
>>
> Presumably youre running Apache at home? If so, just set up a new
> virtualhost with the following (you need mod rewrite and mod proxy
> available)
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://groups.google.co.uk/$1 [P,L]
> ProxyPassReverse / http://groups.google.co.uk/
>
> Then you just point the browser at http://your.new.virtualhost/ and as
> far as the filters concerned, you havent gone anywhere near Google at
> all. If someone cottons on (unlikely) you can just change the hostname.
>
> I used the same trick to give the Blane access to news.bbc.co.uk yonks
> ago, it works a treat so long as the filtering is hostname/ip based.

> simonk wrote:
>>
>> My employers have improved the web filter to remove access to google
>> groups, amongst other sites[1]. Lord only knows why.
>>
>> Anyway, I intend to rectify this by, hopefully, installing some sort of
>> PHP/Apache-based web access to Usenet of my own, ideally on my little
>> Linksys
>> NSLU2 at home, so I can just https: to my ADSL IP address and post away.
>>
> Presumably youre running Apache at home? If so, just set up a new
> virtualhost with the following (you need mod rewrite and mod proxy
> available)
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://groups.google.co.uk/$1 [P,L]
> ProxyPassReverse / http://groups.google.co.uk/
>
> Then you just point the browser at http://your.new.virtualhost/ and as
> far as the filters concerned, you havent gone anywhere near Google at
> all. If someone cottons on (unlikely) you can just change the hostname.
>
> I used the same trick to give the Blane access to news.bbc.co.uk yonks
> ago, it works a treat so long as the filtering is hostname/ip based.

> My employers have improved the web filter to remove access to google
> groups, amongst other sites[1]. Lord only knows why.
>
> Anyway, I intend to rectify this by, hopefully, installing some sort of
> PHP/Apache-based web access to Usenet of my own, ideally on my little Linksys

> NSLU2 at home, so I can just https: to my ADSL IP address and post away.
>
> Are there any decent Perl/PHP/Python/etc web-based usenet readers out there,
> or am I simply imagining that they exist?

> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:38:32 +0000, prawn wrote
> (in article ):
>>
>>Do you have a Mac at home? You could install leafnode [1] on it and tunnel
>>from work.
>>
>>[1] Checks to see if it will compile onna Mac.
>>
>>Yup. http://www.leafnode.org/doc en/FAQ.html#id2515754
>
> Doubt that would work - its proxied HTTP or nothing at work