What Does a CGI Bypass Proxy Do?
Simply put, a proxy is simply a program, often using PHP, that sits between the user and the server that actually connects to the internet. You can use proxies to filter out (and therefore restrict) certain kinds of sites from the users computer (for example, keeping adult websites from being visited at work, or keeping political websites from the eyes of citizens). Proxies can also be used to gather information – from as basic a fact as the IP address where the server request came from to information as complete as every keystroke sent to the web browser. This means that every email, every blog post, and every chat line can be intercepted and monitored by the proxy server. Understandably, some people aren’t comfortable with this kind of scrutiny, and a CGI bypass proxy uses the very same technology to put yet another proxy in between the user and the “monitoring” proxy. This will effectively mask the user, because all server requests will go back to the original proxy, not to the IP a
