Thru.vu is dynamic web proxy project written in PHP. It aims to provide anonymity to web browsers without requiring that users mess with a proxy configuration for their browser.

Additionally, Thru.vu is designed to permit access to web content published on anonymous networks such as Tor, i2p, entropy and freenet without requiring the user to download and install the client applications needed to access these networks. Further automated access to services like Dijjer, Coral Cache might also be useful to implement.

Using Thru.vu is dead-simple: simply tack ".thru.vu" onto the end of the domain name of the URL you want to view through it. Thru.vu's proxy rewrites all cookies, links, and other relevant content necessary to make sure most navigation from the page you receive in response will remain through the thru.vu proxy.

All web robots are currently blocked from using Thru.vu by a universal robots.txt file. This is to prevent litigious parties from accusing Thru.vu of infringing on website copyrights, despite the fact that we don't cache content at all; every request is drawn from the target site and transformed in real time. Even if we did cache content, we would operate within the Digital Millenium Copyright Act's deifnition of a web caching service, which immunizes us from copyright infringement liability in the same way that the web caches of major ISPs and search engines are.

Thru.vu's software may be relased under a free software license in the future. At this point, it is a monolithic php script, which references three tab-delimited text files. It also requires an apache .htaccess file and Apache's URL rewriting engine to work.

At one time, Thru.vu was aimed at providing user-configurable transformations and filtering of web content. Before that feature could be added, Greasemonkey for Mozilla Firefox came, providing a much better (and somewhat more secure) browser-side solution to this problem. User filters and greasemonkey integration may still be a viable idea, however, as Greasemonkey is still limited to use in Firefox only.

Integration with dht/tp may also contribute to thru.vu's reliability and censorship resistance.

Additionally, Thru.vu is designed to permit access to web content published on anonymous networks such as Tor, i2p, entropy and freenet without requiring the user to download and install the client applications needed to access these networks. Further automated access to services like Dijjer, Coral Cache might also be useful to implement. Currently, only the Tor bridge is implemented, and it isn't working very well yet.