Rolling your own decloaking tool.

Building a UserAgent to present cloaked pages.

[quebrada]

I am writing a program to view cloaked pages on the web. The Perl program I am using can alter the Referer with no problem. The pages downloads fine. But I would like to present my UserAgent by IP (using various bot IP's).

Feeding out the IP of one of the favorite bots is giving me problems. I have considered using HTTP:Proxy or IO::Socket::INET.

Can anyone point me in the general direction?

Thanks

[SeanW]

Are you trying to forge your IP? That's not going to work, you need bidirectional communication between the addresses. You could proxy through an open proxy to hide your IP, but you're still stuck with the address of the proxy.

Sean

[quebrada]

Could I present the proxy IP as one the page would think was a bot? I was unclear on if this was possible with HTTP::Proxy or if the proxy address had to be one routable to my host.

[SeanW]

The address the web server sees is the address of the proxy.

Sean

[quebrada]

Ok,

Well that sort of limits what I can do. Thank you for the help.