How to watch Hulu overseas without a proxy server

For the last couple of years, I’ve mostly ditched TV and have used Hulu or live Internet streams, instead (I’m a tech geek). Hulu is amazing – you can watch many of your favorite cable shows online in high quality, usually the day right after the show airs on TV.

Since Hulu is a joint venture of ABC, NBC, and Fox, they’ve blocked overseas IP addresses from accessing Hulu. Of course, to expats, that’s simply unacceptable. People who have been able to get around this issue have used proxy servers, which can get complicated sometimes, so a Reddit submitter (thanks to 200iso and MarshallX) found a way to watch Hulu overseas without using a proxy server. My (somewhat) abbreviated directions are below:

(For Windows or Mac OS X)

1. Download Firefox (if you don’t already have it) – http://www.firefox.com

2. Download “Modify Headers” add-on – http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967

3. Install and restart Firefox

4. Go to “Tools” and then “Modify Headers”

5. From the drop down box on the left, click “Add”

6. Enter: “X-Forwarded-For” in the first input box without the quotation marks

7. In the second box, type in the IP adddress of any US web site - (Try this to find them)

8. Leave the last box empty and save

9. Click “Configuration” on the right and check “Always On”

10. You need to block a few ports, sounds more difficult than it actually is.

Mac Users:

Launch Terminal and type

sudo ipfw add 0 deny tcp from any to any 1935
sudo ipfw add 0 deny udp from any to any 1935

Windows Users:

Section A – Add an “IP Security Policies on Local Computer” snap-in to MMC

1. In Windows 7/Vista you can just click Start and type “mmc” minus quotes and hit Enter, but in XP you click Start > Run > type “mmc” minus quotes and hit enter.
2. Click File and then Add/Remove snap-in
3. Select “IP Security Policy Management” and click the Add button in the middle.
4. A wizard will pop up, leave it on “Local Computer” and click Finish.
5. Back in the Add/Remove snap-in window, click OK.

Section B – Create an IP Security Policy for Hulu

1. Back in the main MMC window, click to select “IP Security Policies on Local Computer”
2. Click Action at the top and then “Create IP Security Policy”
3. In the wizard, click Next.
4. Create a name for the policy, I chose “Hulu IP Security Policy”. Click Next.
5. Requests for secure communication? Whatevs, click Next.
6. Uncheck the edit box and click Finish.

Section C – Create an IP Filter List of tcp/udp ports you wish to block.

1. Back in the main MMC window, click to select “IP Security Policies on Local Computer” again.
2. Click Action at the top and then “Manage IP Filter Lists and Filter Actions”
3. Under the “Manage IP Filter Lists” tab, click Add.
4. Give the filter a name. I chose “Hulu TCP/UDP Block”.
5. Click Add. When the “Welcome to IP Filter Wizard” comes up, click Next.
6. I didn’t bother with a description…click Next.
7. For the source IP address, choose “Any IP Address” and click Next.
8. For the destination IP address, choose “Any IP Address” and click Next.
9. For protocol type, choose “TCP” and click Next.
10. Choose “To this port” and enter 1935 in the box and click Next.
11. Click Finish.
12. Back in the “IP Filter List” box you should have 1 IP filter for TCP port 1935.
13. Follow steps 5 to 11 once more, substituting UDP instead of TCP.
14. Back in the “IP Filter List” box you should have 2 IP filters for TCP and UDP on port 1935.
14. Click OK.

Section D – Add an IP Filter Action so MMC knows to block the above tcp/udp ports.

1. You should now be back in the “Manage IP Filter Lists and Filter Actions” window.
2. Click the “Manage Filter Actions” tab at the top and then click the Add button.
3. Welcome to the IP Security Filter Action Wizard, click Next.
4. Give the action a name, such as “Hulu Block” and click Next.
5. On the “Filter Action General Options” screen, select “Block” and click Next and then Finish.
6. Back in the “Manage IP Filter Lists and Filter Actions” click Apply and then OK.

Section E – Create an IP Security Rule combining the IP Filter List and IP Filter Action from above.

1. Back in the main MMC window, right click the new IP Security Policy and click Properties. (e.g. Hulu IP Security Policy from Section B.)
2. On the Rules tab, click Add.
3. Welcome to the Create IP Security Rule Wizard, click Next.
4. Leave the Tunnel Endpoint on “This rule does not specify a tunnel” and click Next.
5. For Network Type, select “All Network Connections” and click Next.
6. IP Filter List? Select “Hulu TCP/UDP Block” and click Next.
7. Filter Action? Select “Hulu Block” just like above and click Next.
8. Click Finish.

Section F – Assign the Hulu IP Security Policy.

1. Back in the main MMC window, right click the “Hulu IP Security Policy” and click “Assign”
2. After closing Firefox and opening it again, you should be able to use Hulu.

If you’re still reading and managed to get this working, awesome. Keep in mind that by making it seem that your IP address is based in the United States, you won’t be able to properly access sites that you want to know where you actually are, so you can always just disable the add-on when not using Hulu.

source: Reddit