About Pythoxy

What is Pythoxy?

Pythoxy is a HTTP web proxy written using Python. It acts as an intermediary between you and the host that you're trying to connect to. By doing this, anonymity is gained. Pythoxy has numerous uses, but most notably is probably its ability to bypass most filters at school or work.

Where do I go to use it?

Currently, Pythoxy is only avaliable to official testers who may access it via https://pythoxy.org/ or by clicking on 'Use Pythoxy' to the right.

How secure is Pythoxy?

Pythoxy is rather secure by conventional standards. The version hosted on this site is accessed using SLL in order to protect all traffic between you and the host. It should be noted, however, that Pythoxy doesn't validate SSL certificates when accessing a website, it instead accepts any certificate thrown at it. Furthermore, Pythoxy is running on a shared server, so I can't change Apache settings to specify not to log requests. Contributing helps me get closer to running my own dedicated server. :-)

Can I be an official tester?

Probably not. I leave that position only to people that I know personally. The rest of you will just have to wait until May 15, 2008 in order to use it.

Will Pythoxy be open source?

Eventually, yes. Pythoxy is built to run on versions 2.4 and 2.5 of Python.

How does it work?

The idea is simple, but the implementation is rather difficult. In a nutshell, you request a web-page, Pythoxy then forwards your request to the host, receives the data, parses it, and then sends it back to you. Sounds easy, huh?