Help needed for a networking practical joke

[Guest]

Hi group,

I have this friend who's always surfing the internet looking at naugthy
pictures, but feels incredibly guilty about it. His worst nightmare is that
his mother finds out about it. A classic case, I guess.

Anyway, I'd like to pull a nasty little practical joke on him. What I'd like
to do is mirror his favourite skin sites, save them locally and alter certain
pages to feature a picture of his mother shouting "Johnny! What are you
doing?!". That'll freak him out.

Anyway, this is pretty complicated. I need to make him think he's logging on
to the internet, but he's actually logging on to some kind of 'local
internet', in which www.naughtythings.com resolves not to the actual site,
but to a folder on my local hard drive.

I've been thinking about this, but I can imagine that this would require at
least an Apache server or equivalent and maybe a local DNS server of some
sort. Then, I'd need to make a 'network connection' icon in Windows XP that
points to this one-computer-version of the internet.

The thing is, I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone please give me some
pointers on how to achieve this complicated joke (believe me, it's worth it.)

Thanks in advance!

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have this friend who's always surfing the internet looking at naugthy
pictures, but feels incredibly guilty about it. His worst nightmare is that
his mother finds out about it. A classic case, I guess.

Anyway, I'd like to pull a nasty little practical joke on him. What I'd like
to do is mirror his favourite skin sites, save them locally and alter certain
pages to feature a picture of his mother shouting "Johnny! What are you
doing?!". That'll freak him out.

Anyway, this is pretty complicated. I need to make him think he's logging on
to the internet, but he's actually logging on to some kind of 'local
internet', in which www.naughtythings.com resolves not to the actual site,
but to a folder on my local hard drive.

I've been thinking about this, but I can imagine that this would require at
least an Apache server or equivalent and maybe a local DNS server of some
sort. Then, I'd need to make a 'network connection' icon in Windows XP that
points to this one-computer-version of the internet.

The thing is, I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone please give me some
pointers on how to achieve this complicated joke (believe me, it's worth it.)

Martin,

hehe, good one! Do you have access to his computer? If not, it's
truly difficult, because you have to catch and alter a
connection request.

If you have access, one simple method would be to put an extra
line into his hosts file, redirecting a host name to a different
IP address where you run a Web (HTTP) server. Windows XP
Professional with the included IIS (Internet Information Server)
installed will do just fine.

Hans-Georg