Masqr

What is MASQR?

Think of it like an “anti link leaking” system for proxy bots. The link you recieve is unique and will only work once, which can prevent filters from catching on and help proxy site owners by not making them buy new links that will just get blocked.

How can I deploy this?

This is fairly easy to deploy to your backend using express, as seen in the MasqrBackend example, and you can implement this into different backends fairly similarly. You can also use masqr-middleware if you’d like to avoid implementing it yourself.

To set this up you’ll want to create a few files, in addition to adding this to your app. Those files include

Checkfailed.html - this will be your fallback failure page
placeholder.svg, a default image for v0.dev sites

Optionally, place a folder named Masqrd in your server directory Inside Masqrd, an individual masqd page for when domain fails for EACH domain for example, if anura.christmas fails to validate, it will serve ./Masqrd/anura.christmas.html.

How it works

MASQR is pretty simple. Links from proxy bots (eg. Titanium Network’s bot) will give you a link that looks like this: https://u:[email protected]. The u:abc123 part is a one-time use password for HTTP authentication. The server then generates a license that’s saved as a cookie, and whenever you visit that site, it checks your cookie with the one in the server. If you visit the site without a valid password or cookie, it sends you the fallback site.

Credits

The Masqr docs were written largely by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland.