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From: Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab@bright.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] charon / tcp pasthrough sniffing
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2001 10:32:05 +0000
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matt@proweb.co.uk (Matt) writes:

> I'm trying to defeat all the shenanigans on www.genie.co.uk
> they use some tricky techniques to prevent scripting [...]
> Is there some general purpose tcp sniffing technique

Have you already set web browsers aside and spoken directly with the
web server (via HTTP) to see what _exactly_ it's doing?  I've been
known to resort to this (using libwww-perl, but there are other
ways to do the same thing) for particularly intractible websites.