How to Access Cyberoam Blocked, Banned Website via Opera Mini 5

Cyberoam is a Content and Application Filtering device which is used to control Internet access. Most of the IT firms and BPO filter unwanted websites using this device. This device is even capable of blocking proxy website. So if your company or office has implemented this device, definitely you cannot access orkut, Myspace, FaceBook or any other social network.

However, there is solution for everything in digital world. We have already mentioned in our earlier post How to access Opera Mini 5 Mobile Browser from Desktop using MicroEmulator. Just refer this article and you will find simple steps to setup MicroEmulator and running Opera Mini 5 in it.

Once you have loaded Opera Mini 5 in MicroEmulator.

Click on Options — > Select Device. Select Resizable Device, Set as Default and click Ok. Now you will get resizable Opera Mini Browser with onscreen keyboard.

Hooray! Enjoy browsing Cyberoam blocked websites.

How exactly blocked, banned website can be accessed via Opera Mini?

Here is the answer: When a user browses the web using Opera Mini, the request is sent to one of the Opera Software Company’s proxy servers, and that server retrieves the web page, processes it, compresses it, and sends it back to MicroEmulator.

So technically, you will be accessing website through Opera proxy server. It is possible to filter/block Opera proxy servers and make Opera Mini non-functional. If you’re Network Administrator is smart and extremely techie. Opera proxy servers will be definitely blocked and you may need figure out some other technique.