Anonymous Proxy Server or altering REMOTE_ADDRR

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nospamjac
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Anonymous Proxy Server or altering REMOTE_ADDRR

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I use Webinator to search 25 or so public websites in real time. For one of the sites, I do not want the http variable REMOTE_ADDR to be set to the actual ip address of my Webinator Windows Server 203 machine. The only way I know how to do this is to go through an Anonymous Proxy Server.

Is there a way in Vortex / Webinator to alter REMOTE_ADDR?

If not, I'm wondering if/how Webinator can be used with Anonymous Proxy Servers.

I have Privacy Manager from http://www.anonymizer.com. However this slows down my browsing. I'm speculating that it will drastically slow down my webinator application. If nothing else, I'd like to only use the Anonymous Proxy Server for the 1 site, well letting the other 24 sites run faster without going thru the proxy server.
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Anonymous Proxy Server or altering REMOTE_ADDRR

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The client can't alter REMOTE_ADDR. That is set by the webserver. TCP/IP can inherently identify the IP of the remote client (you). When you go through a proxy, the proxy see's your IP and the server see's the proxy's IP.

Under all walk settings there's a place to set a proxy server.

When using a proxy you're at the mercy of it's speed and connectivity.
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Anonymous Proxy Server or altering REMOTE_ADDRR

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Whoops - sorry - I hit refresh & somehow my original msg got reposted...

Thanks! I now see how to use urlcp with fetch for a proxy server at

http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/ ... urlcp.html

Can that setting of a proxy server via urlcp somehow work for just one of the urls in a parallel fetch?
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