#Glimmerblocker mac mac

It appears the the IOS application is listening on port 4343 for this in some sort of strange attempt to keep you from running this through a proxy server. Oddly enough, this IP address resolves to 127.0.0.1, which fails since the proxy server is trying to talk to itself. Somewhere just before the video starts to play, the NetFlix IOS application tries to perform a CONNECT to the address on port 4343. Today, using the debug logging built into GB, I was able to figure out why.

Unfortunately, my iPhones and iPad can’t use NetFlix’s Watch Instantly feature through GlimmerBlocker, or any other proxy for that matter. You can even chain GlimmerBlocker to a Caching proxy to save bandwidth. If you have kids, you might want “SafeSearch”, which enforces safe-search on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The site lists ones as specific as a “Facebook ‘Like’ Disabler” and the “Facebook 3rd party block”, to ones such as “SSL:ify Sites”, which forces all communications to Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Google to their SSL versions. Various programmers create filters, and publish them for anyone else to use. It allows you the opportunity to transform the content of everything going through it. Kind of like GreaseMonkey for Firefox, except this is in Proxy server form. It’s a proxy server that blocks ads, enhance web sites, and more.

#Glimmerblocker mac mac

I found this out using a great Mac application called GlimmerBlocker.

It looks like NetFlix Watch Instantly on IOS devices uses a trick to try to avoid proxy servers. NetFlix Watch Instantly on IOS devices via Proxy