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| From | Rich <rich@example.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: http heartbeat software... |
| Date | 2015-03-05 21:47 +0000 |
| Organization | My Linux Box |
| Message-ID | <mdait0$jmc$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <adGdnfeINeQ1DWXJnZ2dnUU7-S2dnZ2d@giganews.com> |
Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> 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 :-(.
A wget loop in Bash is so trivial it is almost not worth looking for a
'custom program':
while true; do
wget -O /dev/null http://www.google.com
sleep 30
done
Substitute your favorite url for http://www.google.com.
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http heartbeat software... Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-03-05 11:21 -0600
Re: http heartbeat software... Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-03-05 21:47 +0000
Re: http heartbeat software... Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-03-05 20:46 -0600
Re: http heartbeat software... Andreas Kohlbach <mar15.6.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-03-05 17:41 -0500
Re: http heartbeat software... William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-03-05 23:52 +0000
Re: http heartbeat software... Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-03-06 08:14 +0000
Re: http heartbeat software... "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2015-03-06 14:26 +0100
Re: http heartbeat software... aitch <null@void.invalid> - 2015-03-07 19:35 +0000
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