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Hello,

I'm working on a script used for uploading videos to dailymotion.com but it seems they somehow figure out that I'm trying to use a script instead of a normal browser and block my request. While uploading the file using the script I receive an error message: Error 500: Connection reset by peer.
The HTTP headers of both requests are exactly the same (you can check here the wireshark capture for both requests: Lynx & Java HTTP requests ).

Is there any other way (except from checking the http headers) by which they can check if the upload is made by a browser or by a script?

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated as I've been trying to figure out what is the problem for more than 12h now and still no solution.

Thanks in advance!

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Before you POST a video upload a normal browser would do a GET on the page and also download all the images, css, other content for the page. They probably assume you are using a graphical browser (because it is a video site...) and check to see if you have GET'd that information.

Just a guess

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Hello Scott,
Thank you very much for the response.
You're right but I've tried to upload the video using lynx which is a command line tool which doesn't load the graphics, css, js and it did upload the video.

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Are you doing a GET on the upload page before posting it?

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Yes. I first have to login to get the cookie and after that I have to load the upload page to take the action of the form as it is generated automatically after each refresh.

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Are you willing to post what you have so far? Debugging it is the only idea I have left...

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Thank you very much for all your help.
You can find here the java project: Project Files
MassUploader.zip is the java project (You might need to use netbeans to comile it... I'm not sure about this because I've just started learning Java)
java_required_libraries.zip contains the libraries required in order to compile the code
dmtesting.pl - perl version of the script (it can be run directly from the console)

I really appreciate all your help. Please let me know if you need anything else in order to run the java project.

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Alright.. it will be later today until I can take a look at it but I will get back with you.

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