- Perform these steps BEFORE going to China. Many of the sites you need to reach to bypass the Great Firewall are blocked by the Great Firewall.
- Too late? Find someone in China who’s already punched through the Great Firewall to help you.
- Set up GoAgent on your browser and a Google App Engine account according to the instructions here.
- Those instructions are for FireFox. I was shown how to get it running under Chrome, by a Linux fan, and between the two of us we had an easy time interpreting that for my mac.
- I launch the proxy agent manually, by going into the <GoAgent>/local folder and running “sudo python proxy.py” there.
- When I say “<GoAgent>”, I mean the folder you unzipped from your download of GoAgent from code.google.
- The SwitchySharp Chrome extension gets installed in Chrome by going to Settings->Extensions within Chrome, and then dragging the (only) .crx file from <GoAgent>/local into the Chrome window that shows your current extensions.
- You probably want to update its autoproxy rules from the live servers:
- Click the SwitchySmart Chrome Extension icon that’s now in the upper-right of your Chrome window.
- Click “Options” under its menu. A new tab appears.
- That tab has a tab-bar of its own. Click “Switch Rules” there.
- At the bottom of that window, click the button to “Update List Now”
- Your computer won’t be happy loading sites, still: routing everything though a proxy makes it look like you’re being snooped by a man-in-the-middle hacking attack. You have to add the proxy’s certificate to your trusted certificates list.
- On Mac, open the program “KeyChain Access”.
- Drag the certificate file from <GoAgent>/local into an unlocked keychain there.
- You should see a new certificate for “GoAgent CA”. You might have to search to narrow down to see it among the hundreds of other certificates a mature computer will have in its keychain.
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