On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:07:52PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:24, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > > I would consider the impact of trying to grab penthouse's robots.txt, > > especially when it would only be accessed when testing a perl module, to > > be so minimal as to be of no consequence. But feel free to grab > > http://cpxxxan.barnyard.co.uk/ instead if you'd prefer to hit a "willing > > victim"'s site. > How about the list of CPAN mirrors that the user has configured? I > don't know much about CPAN's internals but it doesn't seem a stretch > that that would be available or easily available through its API. > Even failing that, www.cpan.org seems wholly reasonable. > If you want a site that categorically will not notice, google.com and > kernel.org ...
But all of those are likely to be whitelisted, unlike whatever random webservice you're trying to test. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence You can't spell AWESOME without ME!
