playing chess.com behind a corporate url filter..

:D Ok my issue is thus.. at work there is a url filter which blocks sites they dont want staff using... chess.com is one such site *gasp!*

Now, if i use the ip addy instead of url i can get around that ok..  my question is does anyone know how i can sidestep the login part?

So example 

67.201.34.176/forum.html to reach the forum

67.201.34.176/login.html to reach the login page..

but... when i enter my details it must somehow not use the ip addy and so i get blocked at this point.. which sucks! One should be able to feed ones addiction of this marvelous site even while being paid ;)  Any ideas of getting around this please?! Cheers :)

Thankfully, they have not copped that yet in my office :-)

I'm not sure there's a way around log ins as I think the site identification codes take over.

I'm sure other more knowledgables may know better.

Ah, Pistoleer, there's a simple way around the problem and it works for me:  give up work. 

Maybe you could catch one of those rare diseases like "DNA repair -deficiency disorder" that make you old overnight (or failing that wait for your kids to reach their teens).  Then you could retire and spend all your time on chess.com.

Google search for proxy avoidance websites, then type in the address in the proxy avoidance website.

Zug>  If absolute addressing were used, it would be even worse, because the link would use the full "hard coded" URL name of the site.

They're using absolute urls:

      <li><a href="http://www.chess.com/members" title="Find friends, read blogs, meet other Chess.com members!" class="navtab">Members</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="http://www.chess.com/members">Find a Member</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://www.chess.com/home/invite_friends.html">Invite Friends</a></li>

Actually, if all you want to do is modify the URLs in HTML... say, convert chess.com/location to <ip>/location, Privoxy can do this by itself with little to no impact on your browsing speed. See http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/filter-file.html

That way your browser will never see or request chess.com, only <ip>.  :) 

we use absolute URLs in the menus :)

http://www.proxy.org - have fun! :) 

I doubt he'll be allowed to install privoxy, and the portable version has never worked for me. I use https://vtunnel.net (https) or https://scoobidoo.net as web-proxies, and they'll be easiest.

Alternatively, if you know any javascript, you could probably get greasemonkey to change all the URLS. This would work on some but not all links (some stuff is dynamically fetched). I might have a crack at it sometime. If work doesn't have Firefox, get portable Firefox and set it up.