Re: How do I make a server think I'm in a particular location ?
Ahh, is THAT what web proxies are all about. Seen 'em there forever and never really looked into what they do. Gave your suggestion a shot, Ronni, and worked a treat. Yep, can see why using these things would be dangerous, but in this case the benefit outweighs the risk. Thank you, Ronni! Steven On 10/09/2011, at 9:16 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, You are treading on unsafe ground here! I'm hesitant to post, so anything below is taken completely at YOUR RISK! You have to Google for free http proxy, some of the lists you get as a result classify geographically the proxies, find one of those and then choose a US located proxy. Afterwards set your browser to use as HTTP proxy your selected proxy (what are the steps to do this depends on the browser you use). Some proxies work better than others and some just don't plain work with some big traffic sites, so you might have to try a few (unless you get a trusted proxy from a friend or company.) BEWARE that all your received and submitted data could be stored and even modified in transit by a malicious proxy, you cannot trust at all the data received, or that the other party has received the data as you have sent it. None of the above is recommended by me and I take no responsibility! Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/09/2011, at 3:18 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Anybody know how I can make a server think I'm somewhere other than where I really am (geographically speaking)? Say I need to post something to a website which allows me to post only if I'm within a particular country (not necessarily the same country as the website's server). I assume my internet service provider provides details of my geographical location to the server. Is there any way of stopping the provision of this information? Or better still, providing an IP address for the country I want the server to think I'm in? I suppose somebody's going to tell me it's a breach of some code or law, I'm pleading ignorance, but it's all above board - just some dumb technical hoop I need to jump through. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How do I make a server think I'm in a particular location ?
Anybody know how I can make a server think I'm somewhere other than where I really am (geographically speaking)? Say I need to post something to a website which allows me to post only if I'm within a particular country (not necessarily the same country as the website's server). I assume my internet service provider provides details of my geographical location to the server. Is there any way of stopping the provision of this information? Or better still, providing an IP address for the country I want the server to think I'm in? I suppose somebody's going to tell me it's a breach of some code or law, I'm pleading ignorance, but it's all above board - just some dumb technical hoop I need to jump through. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How do I make a server think I'm in a particular location ?
Hi Steven, You are treading on unsafe ground here! I'm hesitant to post, so anything below is taken completely at YOUR RISK! You have to Google for free http proxy, some of the lists you get as a result classify geographically the proxies, find one of those and then choose a US located proxy. Afterwards set your browser to use as HTTP proxy your selected proxy (what are the steps to do this depends on the browser you use). Some proxies work better than others and some just don't plain work with some big traffic sites, so you might have to try a few (unless you get a trusted proxy from a friend or company.) BEWARE that all your received and submitted data could be stored and even modified in transit by a malicious proxy, you cannot trust at all the data received, or that the other party has received the data as you have sent it. None of the above is recommended by me and I take no responsibility! Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/09/2011, at 3:18 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Anybody know how I can make a server think I'm somewhere other than where I really am (geographically speaking)? Say I need to post something to a website which allows me to post only if I'm within a particular country (not necessarily the same country as the website's server). I assume my internet service provider provides details of my geographical location to the server. Is there any way of stopping the provision of this information? Or better still, providing an IP address for the country I want the server to think I'm in? I suppose somebody's going to tell me it's a breach of some code or law, I'm pleading ignorance, but it's all above board - just some dumb technical hoop I need to jump through. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How do I make a server think I'm in a particular location ?
Note: ... Where mentioned choose a US located proxy' you of course would select what country you are wanting to use. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/09/2011, at 7:16 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Steven, You are treading on unsafe ground here! I'm hesitant to post, so anything below is taken completely at YOUR RISK! You have to Google for free http proxy, some of the lists you get as a result classify geographically the proxies, find one of those and then choose a US located proxy. Afterwards set your browser to use as HTTP proxy your selected proxy (what are the steps to do this depends on the browser you use). Some proxies work better than others and some just don't plain work with some big traffic sites, so you might have to try a few (unless you get a trusted proxy from a friend or company.) BEWARE that all your received and submitted data could be stored and even modified in transit by a malicious proxy, you cannot trust at all the data received, or that the other party has received the data as you have sent it. None of the above is recommended by me and I take no responsibility! Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/09/2011, at 3:18 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Anybody know how I can make a server think I'm somewhere other than where I really am (geographically speaking)? Say I need to post something to a website which allows me to post only if I'm within a particular country (not necessarily the same country as the website's server). I assume my internet service provider provides details of my geographical location to the server. Is there any way of stopping the provision of this information? Or better still, providing an IP address for the country I want the server to think I'm in? I suppose somebody's going to tell me it's a breach of some code or law, I'm pleading ignorance, but it's all above board - just some dumb technical hoop I need to jump through. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
