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Under what circumstances will you make surfing logs available to third parties?
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BlackNet does not keep logs of the sites its users visit, thus there are no logs to make available to third parties for any reason.
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How come my real HTTP_USER_AGENT still shows up in the remote logs when I'm connecting via SSL?
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This is due to the way SSL sessions work. All of the information, including your environment such as the HTTP_USER_AGENT variable is encrypted at your browser and sent via the SSL connection to the webserver on the other endpoint of your SSL connection, where it is decrypted. Thus, the proxy in the middle can't decrypt or modify that session data (this is basically proof-of-concept of SSL in action).
If your own IP address appears in the remote logs instead of BlackNet's, your web browser is not properly configured to use the proxy for SSL connections, see the Support pages for configuration instructions for your browser type.
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Can BlackNet block Java Applets, Cookies, Javascript or VBScript?
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BlackNet is setup to be a "pure proxy", it is designed to be not only anonymous, but transparent. Different users have different requirements for what they want to allow and disallow, thus, BlackNet assumes the user will maintain what to allow or disallow in their own local browser settings.
That being said, because Java applets can reveal your true IP to the remote server, users are encouraged to disable Java in their browsers, but we have also made alternate ports available which will block Java applets.
If you want BlackNet to block Java applets for you, you should connect through the one of the following alternate ports: 3129 15129 24002
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I'm using the java blocking ports but the java applets are still executing, why?
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If you have already visited the page with the java applets before using the blocking ports, or you run another web browser on your system direct to the internet (no proxy) which has been used for the destination page, then the java classes are in your local cache and being executed locally. (i.e. .jdi_cache folder on winXP machines) You will need to clean out that folder.
This is why we recommend you use your local web browser settings to determine what you want to allow and disallow being executed.
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Are Proxy Auto-Config URL's available?
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You can use the following URL's to auto-config your web browser:
- http://proxy.blacknet.biz/config/regular.pac
- Normal proxy config. Set's your browser to use the main BlackNet proxy for both normal, SSL and FTP connections
- http://proxy.blacknet.biz/config/ua_passthru.pac
- Passthry User-Agent. Set's your browser to use the main BlackNet proxy for both normal, SSL and FTP connections, but does not mask your browser's USER_AGENT
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