Can you tell me if you have a way of testing US website access from other > countries?
> I would like to test results of IP Detection from Europe (London, Paris,
> Berlin), Asia (Seoul, Tokyo), South America (Buenos Aires, Rio de Jeniro),
> Australia (Melbourne), North America (Toronto).
Jerry Penner said,
Wrote on March 11, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
FireFox has a couple of interesting add-ons. ProxySel allows you select from a
whole collection of proxies around the world. The caveat is that these free
proxies are only active for a short period of time; some days they work, some
days they don’t.
Another Firefox add-on is Modify Headers. I haven’t played with this one much,
but it’s possible to muss with the headers that get sent with an HTTP
request. Once you know the address you want to spoof, you should be able to
plug this into Modify Headers and test your IP detection function.
Teemu Vesala said,
Wrote on March 11, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
I would subscribe cheap shell account from those places and tunnel the traffic thru those servers to the site under testing. In best case you get even the proxy access which simplifies the task a lot.
HTTP heder modification is not enough to test the site. E.g. Apache’s deny/allow -options are not trusting to the headers. They are totally trusting to the source of the TCP/IP-packet bacause in that case the faking is much harder than any other way.
Poonam Patel said,
Wrote on March 24, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
You can use free proxy server.
Try this out: http://www.anonymousunblock.com/. After navigating to this page; Enter website URL in field “Enter The Website You Wish To Anonymously Browse:”.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Poonam
Teemu Vesala said,
Wrote on March 25, 2009 @ 9:36 am
Unfortunately the anonymoys proxies has one problem from testing point of view. You cannot control which country they are using and you cannot be sure that if you hit it again, you are using same proxy. From the testing point of view reproducability is quite important issue.
Also if you are trying to test more than just “is this accessible”, the proxies above has another problem. They are adding content to the page. It adds advertaising to the page and box with input text.
I’m also a bit worried what kind of proxies they are using. Quite often the anonymous proxy lists which can be foundn from the net are including boxes which has been hijacked illegally and then proxy is installed to those.