This script will remotely fetch web pages for you, which is useful if you are in a restricted web environment (e.g. a censored one).

• It does not help provide anonymity as it doesn't yet block Javascript.
• gives you the option of retrieving a page unmodified
• doesn't mangle mailto and nntp links
• will fetch https resources if requested (with the accompanying security risk)
• doesn't mangle local url references (within the page)
• works in conjuction with approxClientproxy to allow fully transparent browsing through the proxy !
• useful DEBUG mode (for http and CGI environment disgnostics.. including cookies)
• doesn't generate XHTML that IE can't display
• It's written in Python and so a lot easier to adapt !
• Will handle cookies automatically using the ClientCookie or cookielib module, if they're available.
• Can be set to only allow access to a specified domain by setting the RESTRICTED variable.