[NTLUG:Discuss] Faking another Browser.

[Jay Cox]

You could always use one of those tcp sniffer utilities (to my recollection
the easiest one to use was sniffit, however i don't recall how it might
handle PPP devices).  Tcpdump has some options to grab x number of bytes
from each packet (and various filters on packets based on src/dest ip and/or
port numbers of course) although I've forgotten how hard it is to set up to
get tcpdump to show you the ascii portions of the packet contents.  Anyone
else want to comment on better sniffers?  I haven't had the need (or want)
to sniff the actual data in packets in a while.

(Of course I should mention there are the usual warnings about sniffers
putting ethernet cards into promiscuous mode and how that in theory makes
your ethernet card stick out like a sore thumb amongst others in the
network.  If the network hubs are packet switching, though, the ethernet
card shouldn't see any traffic of another computer anyway.  I realize this
is a home network that we are talking about, but I don't want somebody else
thinking this is risk free for any network.)

Jay Cox

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Faking another Browser.


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> hmmm - I hacked the prefs.js file in Mozilla, but it doesn't seem to
> be fooling the website.  Is there any way to verify that it's really
> sending the new string?
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