How to Access Meebo behind a School or Goverment Firewall

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Tired of not being able to talk to freinds at school or work?
Meebo lets you connect to most of the important chat networks
but it is often blocked by the network firewall. Here are a few tips.


First of all if you have never tried using it before, very few corporations know about Meebo right now due to the fact that it is a new up and coming corporation focused on instant messaging. So try going to www.meebo.com first just to see if the firewall blocks it

If it doesn’t block it, then use it to your hearts content but expect it to be blocked soon.

Now if it has been blocked there are two regular options from here:

One is using a proxy based website that redirects you through the firewall to allow you to view blocked sites. Examples…

http://proxy-browser.co.uk
https://proxify.com/

If you cant find a good proxy website that works properly, next comes the easiest and most hilarious solution.

take http://www.meebo.com
and add an S to the http part resulting in this…
https://www.meebo.com

By changing the http to https, many firewalls will consider it a secure connection and allow it to pass through.

Editors Note:

Another option that I would try is described here on the meebo blog as well. The software there allows you to setup a personal proxy from your home computer. By going from the school to your personal computer, the firewall will never know to block it.

Setting up a personal proxy like that, however, can be difficult. If nothing else works though, this method is almost unblockable.

 

33 Comments -


  1. wasim said on October 25, 2008

    the s works for me thanks a lot

  2. Alec said on November 6, 2008

    Thanks man the HTTPS: solution worked for me! :)

    Thanks again!

    Have a great day

  3. anonymous said on November 20, 2008

    hey im at school i tried them all but they dont work

  4. dazser said on November 27, 2008

    it still doesnt work at my school :(. is there anything thing else

  5. boredinschool said on December 2, 2008

    The s thing didn’t help much:( Is there anything else? the school’s web filter is light speed. Is that one particularly secure?

  6. Anonymous said on December 3, 2008

    AWESOME! I use https proxies all the time but who would have known it worked for meebo!? thanks!!!!!!!

  7. would u like to kno said on December 15, 2008

    they should give up on blockin everything… cuz they block a proxy then i find one again… its just more work for them hahahahah but nah it didnt work for me… but i guess i will try another website but thanks anywaysssssss

  8. Nunya said on December 27, 2008

    I wouldn’t try it they moniter what we view. I’m not sure how though!

  9. rox said on January 9, 2009

    i cannot do the https thing how can i?

  10. Ayka said on January 30, 2009

    it didnt work on my school laptop!!!! anymore ways?

  11. pufff! said on February 6, 2009

    aaarrrggggg!!!its still not working…

  12. Tammeka said on February 9, 2009

    I cant get on through those websites. can anyone tell me how to get through mine?

  13. maikey said on June 10, 2009

    none of this works can u help

  14. jackie said on June 11, 2009

    dont work.

  15. LAUREN OLEARY said on July 3, 2009

    Doesntt workk :( x

  16. Anonymous said on August 26, 2009

    THANK YOU SO MUCH YAYA YOU LOL

  17. your mom said on September 4, 2009

    it worked, but then i guess the teacher caught me and blocked that site, too.xD
    thanks, though :D

  18. Anonymous said on October 22, 2009

    u could use proxy ip numbers to un block it

  19. Anonymous said on October 26, 2009

    I cant access the meebo blog thing you set up..is there any other ways if proxy sites are blocked too?

  20. Ajith said on October 31, 2009

    Hello,

    I work as a system level programmer in Dubai , and pagemod proxies were the only ones which got through the Etisalat Filter.
    I have tried all sorts of proxy servers like TOR etc but all get pretty slow and inaccessible moreover pagemod has support
    for myspace bebo facebook orkut and video sites as well.
    Even tough web proxies like pagemod proxies gets blocked eventually I get new ones just by sending a mail to
    pagemod@gmail.com or by subscribing to their services.
    Presently their new ones are:

    https://mapreference.info or
    mapreference.info

    Aj

  21. Anonymous said on December 7, 2009

    if these things did not work for you,then i have a solution for it.it will definitly work.
    use https://imo.im
    try this proxy site and you can be connected with your friends on like yahoo,gmail,facebook,AIM,Hotmail etc

    so now enjoy and have fun.

  22. Anonymous said on February 23, 2010

    my school knows it all. this didnt help at all. its so lame.

  23. asano_man said on April 23, 2010

    Wow, that’s kind of embarrasing. You mean the only thing standing between me and my im for the past two years is a single s? Bah.

  24. Rachel said on May 18, 2010

    It didn’t work =[
    My schools cheap and doesnt have Java

  25. Keko said on May 24, 2010

    it didn’t work for me either :’ (

  26. Kait said on May 27, 2010

    Agh. It didn’t work for me, I think my school somehow blocks the word “meebo”. Before it got blocked, http://meebo36.com used to work. But anyway, is there something else? The imo.com didn’t work either. Any suggestions?

  27. j3rk!! said on June 2, 2010

    do3s it wrk 4 b3bo …??

  28. Jammytohjammy said on July 1, 2010

    can not get on it at all they are all blocked ??

  29. Atesa Tugaga said on August 13, 2010

    i hate when people blocked things that u want to go on it.

  30. Phbz_lil_gangsta said on August 19, 2010

    fukkk it dosnt work

  31. Azza_2338 said on September 1, 2010

    english sux…!!

  32. mary said on September 15, 2010

    why can’t we just have facebook without it being blocked theres no difference if we have facebook or not …. !!

  33. Ilovecam1 said on February 3, 2011

    u can use ultra surf, meebo is working fine in it, but i couldn’t use e cam. i want to confirm that meebo cam will work under proxy

 

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