Accessing country-restricted facebook pages

[Sidoh]

Does anyone have experience doing this? I'd imagine they're really only using geoip stuff, but I haven't looked into it much.

Does anyone know of free Canadian or UK webhosts that allow PHP or something I can use to hit the facebook API with?

[Newby]

There's pages on Facebook you can't get to because of your location? Weird.

[Sidoh]

Yeah. It's a setting that group admins can control if they like.

iago loaned me an account on his box, and I confirmed I could get to a page restricted to Canadian visitors via the API.

I threw together a shitty PHP proxy and a ruby script that does oauth logins with mechanize. Currently looking for dirt-cheap (ideally free) PHP providers in CA, UK, and Australia.

[Sidoh]

Christ. I don't know what kind of wizardry they're using, but it's pretty extensive.

Two shitty hosts I found that definitely claim to have their datacenters located in the UK (and with servers having IPs that definitely geolocate to somewhere in the UK) will not work. Accessing the country-restricted page presents the same behavior accessing it from the US does.

I found a VPN service that has a 5 hour free trial. They have 8 VPN servers in the UK, 7 of which are blocked. The very last one I tried got through to the page, but all of the others have the same effect I mentioned with the UK web hosts.

They must do something to detect if you're coming from some kind of VPN/web provider. Jesus this shit's annoying.

Luckily iago has been gracious enough to host some of my shitty scripts on his box, which is allowing me access to the Canadian pages.

Edit - it would seem that some of the proxies on this list successfully subvert whatever mechanism they're using.

Edit 2 - heueheueheuheueheheueheuheueh