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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: http heartbeat software...
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:14:38 +0000
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On 05/03/15 17:21, Robert Heller wrote:
> I am looking for a piece of software that will 'fake' regular web browsing.
> The local mall (Hampshire Mall here in Hadley, MA)'s 'Free WiFi' has this
> totally obnoxious feature. First of all they intercept the first HTTP/HTTPS
> request and redirect you to their disclamer website nonsense. Then if you
> don't keep surffing the web (eg you do something like use some oddball
> protocol like SSH to do stuff), they stop routing your packets and require you
> to connect to their disclamer website nonsense. I am one of those people who
> *DON'T* use webmail and do do things like use slogin to connect to Linux
> servers and I use a QWK-based E-Mail/news reader system (using that odd SSH
> protocol that no one in mess-windows-land has every head of). It is a pain in
> the butt to keep having to go off and visit a random website every so often,
> so I am looking for some program that issues a HTTP GET request every so
> often. I guess I could write a script using sleep and wget, but I was
> wondering if there is some simple stupid program out there that does that. I
> tried a web search for 'http heartbeat program', but mostly got medical
> related hits :-(.
>

Never heard of one - wget/sleep in a loop would in fact be the cleanest 
and simplest solution I can think of.

Or do a little program in perl:

http://search.cpan.org/~ether/libwww-perl-6.13/lib/LWP/Simple.pm

Something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;

while (1)
{
	get("http://www.somesite.example.org/");
	sleep 60;
}