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Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:41:44 -0800, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

>Have you tried spoofing a different User Agent value?

I spoof Firefox, yet Firefox itself can read these. I have run into
ones that want IE only though.

One trick I ran into was you could not just go to the page. You had to
go to the home page and navigate your way there picking up cookies as
you went.

With 15 minutes of Wireshark, I am pretty sure you can figure out what
any one of them is doing to foil Java.  It is just so irritating that
people screw up what was intended as such a simple scheme.

I have a puzzle in this category I have not been able to crack.  My
own website allows padsites to probe my site with HEAD requests to
find out which pads or zips have changed.  Some padsites can do it
fine, where others cannot.  My ISP says we are doing nothing strange.

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
For me, the appeal of computer progamming is that
even though I am quite a klutz,
I can still produce something, in a sense
perfect, because the computer gives me as many
chances as I please to get it right.
 

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Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-29 15:28 -0800
  Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-29 15:41 -0800
    Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-29 16:36 -0800
      Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-11-30 16:51 +0000
        Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-30 11:30 -0800
        Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-01 01:59 -0800
          Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 06:47 -0800
            Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-02 01:58 -0800
              Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 07:20 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 09:23 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-03 11:28 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-06 21:47 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 07:08 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-12-07 10:27 -0600

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