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how would a modify headers add-on be able to let the server think that you are coming from a different address? It's not as if the browser sends the origin address as a HTTP header.

It doesn't have to. It's part of the IP packet which contains the TCP packet which contains the request headers.

Are you sure that you are not using a proxy server at the address Wolfram gives you?

Edit: On second thought, you could try to fool server-side detection by setting a non-standard X-Forwarded-For header, but a what is my ip service shouldn't trust that and just report the real remote address.



Yup, non-standard X-Forwarded-For header here (thank you, Comedy Central!). Clearly not to be trusted by an IP finding service :)




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