on 10/1/02 12:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: > Who's side are you on? Google's? > > Yeah - I read the TOS - and thats wonderful. Aren't there any old hackers > on these mailing lists? Am I the only one who wants to try and find a way > to "stick-it" to Google and successfully retrieve queries without > conforming to their API license? > > There must be a way to perform a GET request in Perl that is > indecipherable from one originating from a browser. > > We just need to find that way...
Well, I personally support Google wholeheartedly, but I don't think they would mind what you are doing as long as you aren't meta-searching or performing some service available to the public. That being said, they are likely using a fingerprinting method. Each browser tends to always send certain headers with requests and may respond to certain response headers in certain ways. Simply watch the header exchange of your favorite browser, and duplicate it. A tool like tcpdump or ethereal can make this process easy. Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
