Recently one of my reader emailed me that he can not access any .blogspot or .wordpress
domain from his office, because websense is blocking them as
personal blogs category. Since we techies, often relied on personal technical
experience, tips shared by fellow developers for our work, this feels really
annoying, but same time it's difficult to convince websense guys or local
websense security team to not put such restriction. I was thinking about
alternative and done some research on internet, which tells me that you can
bypass websense filter at school or office by using proxy sites, but this idea
doesn’t seems good to me, as they may contain some unwanted piece of crap,
which is not good for anyone's computer. Also, if you are working for a decent
size company, there is good chance that those proxy sites will also be blocked
by websense. This leaves no option at all to access any technical or programming blog, hosted on free domain
like .blogspot or .wordpress domain. That’s
why some blogger prefer to have there own domain name than relying on blogger
or WordPress.
Use DZone to bypass WebSense to access
technical or Programming Blog
Anyway, we just need to find one solution and fortunately I found a
decent one, which is safe, secure and easy, and same time bypass websense and
allow you to access technical blogs and programming blogs from your school,
office or workplace computer. All you need to do is find a post of that blog on
Dzone, a link aggregation site for
programmers. I assume most of Java programmers are familiar with Dzone, which has
a vibrant Java community and mostly known for it's fresh links for developers.
Dzone provides lots of visibility to good content, which is rather difficult to
achieve for small bloggers. Since I am a regular Dzone user and I read and vote
on Dzone regularly, I noticed that whenever you access a link, while logged in
on your Dzone account, that link is open on a frame with Dzone voting bar at
top, websense doesn't block that URL and you can easily read content of
your favorite technical blog under Dzone URL. Good thing about this approach is
that it's safe, as we all know Dzone is a good authentic site. Another great
thing is that once you access a particular URL,
already submitted to Dzone, you can further access any other article from that
blog by following blog archive link. Unfortunately, some of the internal link
might not work, but still good enough to access almost all content from a
particular blog. Though, remember that you need to have a Dzone login account,
which you should have already, if you are a Java programmer. Since voting bar
of Dzone, which is key to bypass websense security filter ,only open if
you are logged in, otherwise it might not work. Another catch is that, there
must be a submitted post in Dzone for that blog, but if you don't found any by
doing google search, you can always add one, once you have your Dzone account
ready.
Fortunately I found this tip, which I am sure will help lot of Java
programmers and developers, who wants to access technical and programming blogs
from there office and work place, but not able to do so because of company wide
websense security filter blocking .blogspot or .wordpress domain.
Unfortunately, comment may not work, so I might not be able to know feedback
from those of my friends, which are behind websense security filter.
Nevertheless, let me know if this work for you and you able to access any blog
using Dzone bypassing websense filter. If you come across any other
safe and secure alternative then please share with us.
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