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Curious: If I had a Google App Engine account, a) could I open outbound HTTP connections, and b) what IP range would I appear to be coming from? Not that I fin
by mechanical_fish 15y ago
Curious: If I had a Google App Engine account, a) could I open outbound HTTP connections, and b) what IP range would I appear to be coming from?
Not that I find it unbelieveable that Google, multinational megacorp, could and would do this thing, but this evidence still seems kinda circumstantial. I mean, here's hypothesis two: One compromised PC in Google's HQ, running a proxy.
- sern 15y agoYou can fetch web pages and you'll appear as coming from a Google IP, but your user agent header will contain "AppEngine-Google".
- acqq 15y agoAnd "AppEngine-Google" user agents were not logged: http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/ http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-t...
- jontas 15y agoI'm not familiar with AppEngine at all, but could you really not craft your own headers? Isn't it python's urlib or similar?
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- mkl 15y agoSeems like you can set the user agent: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2743521/how-to-change-user-agent-on-google-app-engine-urlfetch-service http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2743521/how-to-change-use...
- rcfox 15y agoHow would you make money from that though? "Please make the cheque out to Google Kenya, spelled C-A-S-H."
- mooism2 15y ago"SMS your payment to this number..."?
- rmc 15y agoSomething like that. Or send it to this PayPal address or post the cash to here, or ring this premium number, or put your credit card details into http://random.something.sdfsdfsd.com http://random.something.sdfsdfsd.com, etc. There are many people who are flumoxed and confused by computers that we've trained them to let most of their guard down, and scammers can get away with "Oh our system is broken, just use this paypal address" will probably work.