Hmmm...  guerrilla marketing for Linux?  ;-)
You could write a script to parse out the anonymous proxies from sites like:
http://www.proxy4free.com/
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/
Then modify the script below to rotate through those proxies for each
request (maybe use GET instead of HEAD).
It's an interesting idea to write a spider that accesses random websites
and spoofs the UserAgent to look like Linux.  Would this be such a bad
thing to do?  It might help encourage web developers to support more than
just Internet Explorer and make life easier for those of us on non-Windows
platforms...  :)
~M


Austin Godber said:
> If we spoofed random SRC IPs on this would the counters logs still
> increment the Mozilla UA counter ... (there would be no successful
> downloads since the IPs are spoofed, but the request and UA will be sent).
>
> Austin
>
> Matt Alexander wrote:
>> Here's a quick fix.  ;-)
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> use LWP::UserAgent;
>>
>> my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
>> my $url = "http://www.microsoft.com/";
>> my $request = HTTP::Request->new(HEAD => $url);
>>
>> $ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5)
>> Gecko/20031016');
>>
>> while (TRUE) {
>>    $ua->request($request);
>> }
>>
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