User Guide
Someone gave you a five-character token and a link to this page. All you have to do is install the extension and paste the token in. No sign-up required.
1Install the extension
- Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Arc, Zen and other Chrome-based browsers — Chrome Web Store
- Firefox — Firefox Add-ons
The extension weighs 38 KB and installs like any other.
Safari is not supported.
2Paste the token
Click the extension icon, type the five characters and press connect.
Case matters. Ifyu58 and ifyu58 are different tokens. If someone read the token out to you, check which letters were capitals.
If the first character is a capital, the token is password-protected: a password prompt appears right after you paste it. The password is sent to you separately from the token — if you never got one, ask whoever gave you access.
3Done
Tabs with protected sites reload on their own. Nothing to refresh by hand, no browser restart.
The extension shows the list of sites you have access to, under the names your administrator gave them.
What's next
How to tell it's working
Open the site you need. If it used to show an error (404, "server not found"), it will open now. The extension icon shows the connection state and the list of available sites.
Turning it off and on
You can switch the extension off and back on at any time — tabs reload themselves. The token isn't lost, you don't have to type it again.
Handy when you want to compare how a site looks with access and without it.
Private mode
If you're working on someone else's computer or a shared one, turn on private mode in the extension settings: when the browser closes, tokens and settings are forgotten.
When you connect again it won't count as a new activation and won't use up your access limit — the browser remembers the device even when it forgets the token.
Several tokens
You can use several tokens at once — from different administrators or for different projects. The names in the list will keep them apart.
What the extension does with your traffic
A fair question if you're installing it at a client's request.
Only the sites listed in your token go through the gateway. Everything else — mail, YouTube, your bank, any other tab — goes directly, as if the extension weren't there. The route is chosen per domain.
Neither the extension nor the gateway reads your traffic. The connection is encrypted between your browser and the destination server; the gateway only points it the right way.
The extension needs no administrator rights and changes no system settings — no routes, no DNS. Everything happens inside the browser, and removing the extension puts everything back as it was.
If something doesn't work
The site still won't open. Check whether it's in the list in the extension. If it isn't there, or it's marked as switched off, ask whoever gave you the token. If the list is empty, your access may have expired.
The token isn't accepted. Check the letter case. If that doesn't help, the device limit or the activation window may have run out — you'll have to ask for access again.
It asks for a password I don't have. The token is password-protected and the password travels separately. Ask whoever gave you access.
An old version of the page opens. Reload the page bypassing the cache: Ctrl+Shift+R (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+R (Mac).
Access disappeared on its own. Access can be limited by time, traffic or number of devices — one of those ran out. That's normal: ask for a new token.
On your phone
Standard mobile browsers don't support extensions, so access doesn't work there. It does work in mobile browsers that do support them — Firefox for Android, for example.
Questions
Do I need to register? No. The token is all you need.
Will this slow down my internet? Only protected sites go through the gateway. Everything else works as usual.
What happens if I remove the extension? Access goes away and nothing is left behind. Installing it again means entering the token again, and that counts as a new activation.
Can I pass the token to a colleague? Technically yes, if the token has activations left. But your administrator can see how many devices connected and can disconnect each one separately — so it's better to ask.