Anonymous wget

I would like to rip some content from a site using wget, by gathering a bunch of generated pages containing the data that interests me. Each page is of just a few KB.

I am thinking of running a perl script doing basically the following.
[code:1]
for $i ( 1 .. 5000 ) {
system("wget -O $i.htm http://thesite.com/content/?id=$i");
sleep 5; # just a few secs not to kill the server
}[/code:1]

I would like to proceed by running the script, but for various reasons I'd like to do it anonymously i.e. making the target site unaware of the origin of the requests.

Any ideas about that might be arranged?

you can set the $http_proxy enviromental var to an anonymous proxy's address and use wget with --proxy=on parameter.

Thanks.

Any hints on where I can find a truly anonymous proxy server appreciated.

there are many in www.stayinvisible.com as well as a service to check whether they are indeed anonymous ;)

Thanks a lot, nske. Amazing :shock:

Exactly what I was looking for. stayinvisible.com seems just right - others I've seen not as good.