Tricking webserver into believing

[Gerald Combs]

Ethereal will do this as well.  After running a capture, select one of the
HTTP packets, then select Tools->Follow TCP Stream.  A window will pop up
that shows the conversation between the browser and the server, including
the headers.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 mrkshrt at transparentsolutions.com wrote:

> In Perl, using CPAN modules:
> 
> use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
> use LWP::UserAgent;
> #look at your web logs for what string(s) should be here
> $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new("Whatever you want it to look like to
> serverMozilla/5 (beezlebub)");
> my $req = POST 'http://www.targeturl.com/target.cgi',
>       [field1 => 'field1value',
>        field2 => 'field2value',
>       'field.3' =>'field3value'];
>    $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
> 
> $content will contain the text that would have come back to your browser,
> along with headers.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:37 AM
> To: KCLUG (E-mail)
> Subject: Tricking webserver into believing
> 
> 
> Anyone know how webservers query browsers for OS and browser info? I
> need to force my box at home to make 2 certain web addresses believe I
> am coming in from Windoze, with Explorer or Netscape 4.7 and using 128
> bit encryption. There has got to be a way to do this.
> I am currently running Mandrake 8.0 with a 2.4.16 kernel
> KDE 2.1.1 and
> Konqueror 2.1.1
> and Netscape 6.x
> 
> I have talked with one of the sites and it's like talking to a stone
> wall.
> I have Konqueror supposedly transmitting a different string (user
> agent), but the servers always come back with the default value (well
> one does anyway, the other just gives me a raspberry). One of the sites
> supposedly supports Redhat 6.1.
> 
> Grrr!
> 
> TIA,
> Brian Densmore
> <mailto:densmoreb at ctbsonline.com>
> Associate
> CompuTech Business Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.ctbsonline.com/
> (816) 880-0988 x215 
> 
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