If you are making a http request it will show information in the request logs of your webserver. This will contain the IP.
Of course, they just have to block your IP address (either at the server level or their own script level).
But they can not stop me if i am using my local, can they? My ip changes everytime i connect to internet.
If you have a dynamic IP that helps, but they might just block the range. However, most companies don't care too much about scraping as long as you don't do it too often. The best way IMHO is to have a dynamic IP and then make your script (PHP? Perl?) mask as a IE 6 or 7 browser on Windows XP so you look like a normal user. That is easy to do. And then just don't scrape too often; few times a day is fine.
To wich server are you referring will know my IP? The target server I'm leeching information from or the remote website I uploaded the script to, wich I'm paying a monthly fee for?
The site you are pulling the informaion from will know the IP but itll only be in the logs. If its a high traffic site they probably wont even notice unless you are doing it continuously.
To Kwaku and tonybogs: How would that be possible? As i see it, the only IP appearing in the logs of target server would be remote server IP which is accessing it and not IP from person calling the script on remote server. You could even setup cron job or call the script through proxy, i just don't see how and why another IP address beside remote server IP would appear in the logs of the target server. The whole proxy/anonymizer websites are built on this principle, accessing target servers on behalf of the client, so it's IP address doesn't show up.
That's correct. If you are accessing your remote site to access the other site, they won't know YOUR IP address. Unfortunately I think you never really stated the full process that you were intending to do and things like "But they can not stop me if i am using my local, can they?" imply that you were just wanting to run the script locally, accessing directly the site you wanted to leech from.
Lol, i intendend to do nothing The TS clearly stated he rented remote server to be able to leach from target server, without compromising and leaving his own IP address in the target server logs. In that case, his own IP shouldn't appear in the target server logs, that's what i stated and you are confirming it now. Sure, if you are running web-server locally, your IP = server IP, in that case that IP will appear in target server log.
ah; yep then I misunderstood, a nice 'picture' would have been great; local -> remote -> leeched site or something Though still wondering how that would help though; you rented a server ; if you want to leech without 'getting caught' I guess renting a server might not help you either. You can also (as I did) ; pick some of the best proxies (pick from proxy.org etc) and write some Curl code against them to leech from the site. Very easy and you can switch proxy very easily and they usually have millions of hits so you won't get caught easily. Sorry for the misunderstanding though; you were right in the first place.
ok. Can someone explain to me what is happening? Which way is better? I am leaching a site. I was using my server to leach till now. At the moment I changed it to my local. When i leach using my server will they know my server ip? When i leach using my local will they know my ip? The script i am using has got folders. it is like this at the moment http://local/script/a.php What will they see in their log file? will it be 06.202.714.38/script/a.php If i use server will they see as http:www/a/com/script/a.php Thanks