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perl useragent spoofing ip address?

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  • 07-02-2002 7:32pm
    #1
    nahdoic
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭


    is there anyway you can alter a user agent in some perl code to give it a fake ip address. Is it even possible?

    use URI::URL;
    use LWP::UserAgent;
    use HTTP::Request;
    use HTTP::Request::Common;
    use HTTP::Request::Form;
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    my $url = url "http...";
    my $res = $ua->request(GET $url);

    like is there any way to alter $ua to give it a differnet ip address?


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    #2
    Meh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Meh


    The HTTP user agent has nothing to do with your IP address. You can't spoof your IP address for a http request anyway -- how would the web server send the information back to you? The best you can do is send your request through a proxy.


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    nahdoic
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭nahdoic


    yeah thx. Setting up the proxy worked like a charm.

    $ua->proxy('http' => 'http://204.97.153.22:8080');

    :)


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