You must have noticed sometimes that when you click on a link in Google Search, it will take you to the password protected webpage of some premium website or forum which usually requires a free registration. You can now bypass such restrictions imposed by posing as GoogleBot when visiting such websites by changing the user string agent sent by the type of web browser you may be using Firefox or Internet Explorer 7.
This guide is for Firefox and IE7.
If you want a site to test, view this:
http://www.governmentsecurity.org/forum/index.php and select any subforums from "GSO Programming Section"
Firefox
You need the User agent switcher addon. Install it and restart firefox.
The go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options... and on User Agents from left and then click on Add.
Now put this at useragent field:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
and give any description you want.
Now go to any site you want (i don't know if this works in all forums and sites) that requires login.
Usually you will see a message that says you must login first or something like this.
In the image below, you can see a custom made message.
Now go to tools -> User Agent Switcher and select the User Agent you made.
Now try to go to the site again (or press refresh).
You can browse the forum as GoogleBot.
For IE7
Save the following text as a .reg file and double click on it to import it into the registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Googlebot/2.1"
"Compatible"="+http://www.google.com/bot.html"
To undo the changes, save the following text in a .reg format and import it
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
Here is an image from the same page as above
enjoyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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