Hello freak. The word "on the street" is that you are trying to write code that will do BAD THINGS. Such as using a bot to submit to a website to produce bogus "hits".

Before we answer any more of your questions, would you mind answering one of mine? What exactly are you trying to do? And by that i don't mean repeat your question. I mean "what are you building and what is it going to do?"

Thank you.

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

If you have to ask, the answer is: no, you cannot.

Please become a real hacker instead of the pathetic kind you're trying to be. Note that I'm talking about "a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary," not about "someone who plays golf poorly" :).

You want to learn only the minimum necessary, and you want to learn the little that you do for the wrong reasons.

earn
      2. To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve
      and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good
      living; to earn honors or laurels.

fraud
      2. (Law) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose
      of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

when i connect to a website, can i "control" the HTTP_REFERER ?

Could you possibly be any more blatant? At face value your own words would indicate you are attempting to commit fraud. I'm sorry... if you aren't knowledgeable enough to do it on your own I am not going to help you commit fraud.

I guess you like downvotes freak, eh?

Although I don't trust freak's intentions, commiting "fraud" can be rather fun too.

http://www.goto.com/ used to have links that would cost the webpage owner money for each "click". It even had the amount of dollars listed. Now how fun is it to "click" on those links that would bring you to spammer related software? *serpent grin*. LWP is/was perfect for that. Fraudulent, but very nice IMHO.

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b10m

All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.

commiting "fraud" can be rather fun too.

There is fraud and then there is "screwing with somebody". While the former gets my "Irish up" the latter can be a fine way to spend some quality time. As long as it does not take on criminal dimensions.

UPDATE: jeffa requested to drop the example code as freak's history here isn't good at all ;)
Anyway, I'm sure googling for lwp referer would be (too) easy to get the answer he wants :(

Yet another question which shows you really need to read up on LWP and HTTP headers in general. It's all there ;-) But ok, a quick'n'dirty example:

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => $url );

$req->header(REFERER => "http://faked.referer.invalid");
$ua->request($req);
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