I have a DNN powered community site. One of the features available to members is a personal start page - sort of like Netvibes.

Due to all the tracking / monitoring currently being done by advertisers, corporations, and who knows who else I would like to add a "tracking free" browsing feature. Version 1.0 would just be a text box with a Go button.  The end user would input the url they wish to visit, press Go, and the site would open in a frame below the input box.  But I want the call for the web page to come from the server rather than the client. In a regular iframe the call comes from the client so I need something different like a server side iframe or maybe there is some other way to accomplish this??

In my research for a solution I did run accross a nice open source proxy server called PHProxy that works fine on my DNN server. But there are downsides with this.  One is that some sites you visit can tell you are using a proxy so I would rather just have the call come from the server and not have to deal with proxy's and the difficulties some sites throw up with proxy's.  Second I want the site to display within my DNN page (like an iframe) instead of opening a new browser page (like PHProxy does).

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!

Greg

Thanks Cathal for the reply!

I have the Webharpoon module and it is a pretty nice module - especially the newest version - I use it to grab weather data from NOAA. I will see if I can tweak things to pass a URL to the module.  Another avenue I'm looking at is using one of the Google custom search modules - I'm wondering if an end user does a Google search via the custom search module embeded in my DNN site whether Google can track the IP address of the end user or if they just see the request coming from my DNN site???

Another issue I have thought of is the legal side of things.  This feature is intended to enhance privacy - it is not intended to be a tool to do illegal things. Given the nature of this particular community I don't think anyone will be trying to do bad things but I still need to figure out what the liability is just in case.  Any thoughts or ideas here would be helpful too.

Thanks

the google searches will come from the servers IP as it's the one initiating the google call's. As to the legality there is no doubt that someone can use a service like this to disguise their address (e.g. a google search could be used for google hacking - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_hacking ), and a server-side page load could be used for nefarious purposes, but the reality is that with anonymizer services such as http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html , or with the ability to use proxies/wingates it's trivial to disguise your true location, so it's not really something a hacker would use.

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