Looking for a professional web-based proxy service.
July 13, 2009 8:03 AM Subscribe
Looking for a professionally run web-based proxy service to test localization and internationalization of a web site.
There are a million proxy services available today, all of them targeted at people who want to watch Hulu from outside the US or the BBC iPlayer from outside the UK. I don't need that - I am looking for a very simple one that I am willing to pay for. Let me describe what I want and please tell me if it exists!
I am testing localization and internationalization for a product. To quickly check if things are working as planned, I'd like to go to a web page that would let me enter a URL on a form field, select a country, click submit and I would see that URL as someone accessing the internet from that country would see it.
For example, if I enter http://google.com and select Singapore, I'd see the Google Singapore home page.
Bonus points if:
* 100-plus country in the selection list
* Supports SSL
* Proxy forwards my user agent along with my request, so I can use different browsers
* Premium, professionally run service with top-notch availability and customer service
Feel free to discuss non-web-based solutions (Tor, etc), but they are more complex to implement and since I am behind a very restrictive proxy, it might not work for me.
There are a million proxy services available today, all of them targeted at people who want to watch Hulu from outside the US or the BBC iPlayer from outside the UK. I don't need that - I am looking for a very simple one that I am willing to pay for. Let me describe what I want and please tell me if it exists!
I am testing localization and internationalization for a product. To quickly check if things are working as planned, I'd like to go to a web page that would let me enter a URL on a form field, select a country, click submit and I would see that URL as someone accessing the internet from that country would see it.
For example, if I enter http://google.com and select Singapore, I'd see the Google Singapore home page.
Bonus points if:
* 100-plus country in the selection list
* Supports SSL
* Proxy forwards my user agent along with my request, so I can use different browsers
* Premium, professionally run service with top-notch availability and customer service
Feel free to discuss non-web-based solutions (Tor, etc), but they are more complex to implement and since I am behind a very restrictive proxy, it might not work for me.
Can you just set your browser user agent to be that of what you want to test?
In firefox, go to about:config. In the filter box, enter general.useragent.locale.
posted by Climber at 1:43 PM on July 13, 2009
In firefox, go to about:config. In the filter box, enter general.useragent.locale.
posted by Climber at 1:43 PM on July 13, 2009
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posted by Freen at 1:41 PM on July 13, 2009