What I want to do is use one PC to test an application on another on the same 19.2.168.X.X
I would like to make it seem like SOAP requests are coming from a variety of different PCs, just to make the applciations log file easier to read and I have been told that virtual IP Addresses are the way to go. So, how do I defien a range and then use them one by one in VB? (I guss that this is effectively IP header spooging?)
Not exactly sure what you want to do but I'd suggest first looking at the WMI class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration to see if you can do what you want with it.
If that class does not support it you might have to use INetCfg instead, where I think you can change pretty much any network settings, but it's a bit more difficult to use. Here's a codeproject article for using INetCfg from C# which might at least show you how to get started.
If you just want to create a random IP address, generate 4 random numbers from 0 to 255 and glue some dots between them.
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I have 30 separate external urls, each with a different landing page variation, and I want to serve one up at random on a click.
Ideally, repeat clicks would be guaranteed a different url than they were served already, but not a strict requirement, this would be great though if possible.
I've seen examples of people using rewrite/writecond to split test based on the odd/even timestamp of the click, or based on the numbers in their ip address, but this wouldn't really accomplish this task.
I would strongly prefer to do this within the httpd server itself without relying on a python/php script, and I feel like this must be possible, I just haven't been able to find a solution so far.
I tried to find this but I'm not exactly sure how to search for it or if it would even be possible. I'm trying to integrate a program I wrote with a commercial app, the commercial app has the ability to call an external program with a command and pass it the data that I want to capture.
I want to be able to get the currently open instance (or whichever responds first in the case of multiple instances) and send it the information directly and have it perform a function based on that information, I don't want to have to open a new instance.
I know one of my options is to drop a text file with the info and then have my program watch for it and parse it once found but if I can do a more direct communication I'd rather do that.
all it needs to do is fill a text box and run a function seems simple enough, and all I need is a point in the wright direction or some search terms that would pull up pertinent results. I'd like to understand how it works instead of just having someone write the code for me.
Thanks
I made a program that gets the data from the clipboard and saves it in a string variable. Then it looks for specific words in that string and generates several URLs. Afterwards it open the browser and shows each URL in an own tab.
Some of my friends already use this program frequently and I want to have some statistics about how often. I simple counter variable would be enough but I need to get access to it.
I came up with two options that could work:
I could send an email to a specific adress every time my app is executed. Then I can track the amount of uses by manually or automaticly counting the amount of emails in the postbox. I think this would be a Vers dirty solution.
I could create and publish a website containing a counter. This counter could be refreshed by my application. This solution is a bit better I think but a lot more work for just one single counter.
Do you have better ideas to solve my problem or is one of mine already a good one?
Thank you in advace!
You can use Measurement Protocol Overview. This provides you statistics of usage your application compared with Google Analytics. You can see even a geo statistic, version distribution, crash reports. It is easy to use it from .net. It is just about requesting http request to google.
I run this site and I approve access for a section of the site for people. I only want to approve static ips. If i have a bunch of IPs how do I find out if they are static or not? I can do the remaining parts but there is probably some function in the socket library or something that lets me script the part to find if the users are using static or dynamic IP.
thanks !
Php/Js would work too.
There is no way to inherently tell if an IP address is static or dynamically assigned. Based on the hostname that the IPs resolve to, you could probably make a guess as to whether they are static or not, but there is nothing definitive to facilitate this.
You could use the socket module to resolve the IPs to hostnames and flag them as "static" or "dynamic" based on some kind of "best guess" algorithm, but it would be only that: a best guess.
Here is an example using a random Verizon FiOS IP address. This assumes that any IP starting with "pool" is dynamically assigned.
>>> hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr('71.243.222.111')[0]
>>> if 'pool' in hostname:
... print hostname, 'is dynamic'
...
pool-71-243-222-111.lsanca.fios.verizon.net is dynamic
You're going to have a very tough time determining all of the various naming conventions and this would in no way be a complete solution.
You might want to ask yourself what kind of problem you're trying to solve first, and whether filtering access by IP address is providing the kind of verification you need.
I'd use a pragmatic solution: New accounts have a trial phase of a few days. After that they can only log in from the same IP used to sign up. If they still have that same IP it's most likely static.
Well, you don't have a problem, do you? If they ask for access from IP X, you give them access from IP X. If it turns out that it was dynamic and they switch, they no longer have access. In practice, no access from dynamic IPs :)
Seriously though, the authority on IP assignment type is the host from which the user is accessing. Thus, you need to ask the user what it says in his/her config.
I am using an IP location lookup to display localised prices to customers depending on whether they are visiting from the UK, US or general EU and defaulting to the US price if the location can't be determined.
I could easily force the system to believe I'm from a specific country for testing but still there is no way of knowing for sure that it's displaying correctly when a visitor from abroad accesses my site. Is the use of some proxy the only viable way of testing a site like this? If so how would I go about tracking down one that I can use to test my site from various countries of origin?
You should be able to achieve that by using proxies. http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html has a bunch. That site just came from a Google search; I've never used proxies like this before though, so there may be better sites out there.
This is not about how to test, but rather how you identify your visitors.
Instead of using IP-lookup to determine their geographical location, you should instead grab the information about the locale they use from the useragent string.
F.instance, I'm a norwegian, and when I go to useragent.org I see that my browser sends "nb-NO" as the language my machine uses.
You can easily use that to customize currency, dates etc on your site.
If the website is indexed in Google's cache, you can visit the google with the proper URL address. ex. http://www.google.co.uk/
And see if it's displaying properly in the cache.
#Frode:
Checking system locale in iseragent string might be misleading.
I go to Canada, and set my system locale as French. So it might show the user EU prices as opposed to showing US price. Many such cases are possible where locale wont give accurate info about the end users desired "price class" in this particular application mentioned.
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If you want to use geo-ip location to detect a user's language, using a proxy probably is the best way to do so.
There are a lot of lists of open proxies on the web, mostly listed with the countries. Google has quite a lot of search results on this topic. Of the top results, I have used SamAir to test some stuff before.
Searching for a working open proxy with an acceptable speed in the correct country can be a tedious task. Also keep in mind that you should not use any these proxy servers to submit any sensitive data, because you never know who runs them. This could be a kinda trustworthy ISP (ie. not from GB ;D), a honeypot to collect data, or an illegal open proxy hosted by some trojan.