Permanent Programming 11

[Defience]

So, I can read from the web page to get all the info, but I am having trouble submitting my answer. is this near correct? I am programming in python, on ubuntu

print "the solved string is" + solved

values = {'solution':solved, 'submitbutton':'submit'}

solution = urllib.urlencode(values)

request = urllib2.Request("http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11", solution)
request.add_header('Referer', 'http://www.hackthissite.org/')

url = urlOpener.open(request)


when I read the returned url, it is just the normal webpage, like I did not submit anything at all. I am new to webpage interaction and programming so any help would be nice

Are you assigning 'request' earlier in your code to open the initial page? If you are, then its opening the initial 'request ='.
If that's the case, just change your submission to something like request2:

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print "the solved string is" + solved

values = {'solution':solved, 'submitbutton':'submit'}

solution = urllib.urlencode(values)

request2 = urllib2.Request("http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11", solution)
request2.add_header('Referer', 'http://www.hackthissite.org/')

url = urlOpener.open(request2)


Your first request is to open the webpage to get the info, your second request is to submit your answer, not to get the info from the first request again.

[fashizzlepop]

okay..
so I've found that the only cookie I need to actually send
is the PHPSESSID.. I wasn't sure because there are so many.
What's _utm[a,b,c,z,ect.]?

But.. How am I supposed to decide what the value should be?
Every time you delete it, and re-login, it changes..

It would be helpful to know what language you are using.

Ie. In Perl (what I use for these challenges), you can set up LWP to use a cookie jar. With that you can just send your login which will store your cookies with LWP. From there you will grab your problem and submit the answer.

[hungryhobo14]

So, I can read from the web page to get all the info, but I am having trouble submitting my answer. is this near correct? I am programming in python, on ubuntu

print "the solved string is" + solved

values = {'solution':solved, 'submitbutton':'submit'}

solution = urllib.urlencode(values)

request = urllib2.Request("http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11", solution)
request.add_header('Referer', 'http://www.hackthissite.org/')

url = urlOpener.open(request)


when I read the returned url, it is just the normal webpage, like I did not submit anything at all. I am new to webpage interaction and programming so any help would be nice

Are you assigning 'request' earlier in your code to open the initial page? If you are, then its opening the initial 'request ='.
If that's the case, just change your submission to something like request2:

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print "the solved string is" + solved

values = {'solution':solved, 'submitbutton':'submit'}

solution = urllib.urlencode(values)

request2 = urllib2.Request("http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11", solution)
request2.add_header('Referer', 'http://www.hackthissite.org/')

url = urlOpener.open(request2)


Your first request is to open the webpage to get the info, your second request is to submit your answer, not to get the info from the first request again.

I tried this but I still get the same thing. as if nothing was submitted at all and the page just reloaded.

[Defience]

This line:

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request2 = urllib2.Request("http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11", solution, COOKIEHERE)


--needs your cookie sent with it.

If that doesn't do the trick, you can send me your code and I'd be happy to look it over for you.

[secretformula]

I was wondering, would it be cheating to just modify the countdowns value in memory to say 60 to give you a whole minute to run the program? I know it could probably be done with the conditions given lol

[fashizzlepop]

How would you go about modifying the countdown? It's counted by the server, not the JS button.

[secretformula]

I did it just today. View the source of the document. You come across the following

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<!--
            var TimeRemaining;
            var Timer;

            TimeRemaining = 3
            Timer = setTimeout("countdown()", 1000);

            function countdown()
            {
               TimeRemaining--;
               document.submitform.submitbutton.value = "submit            (remaining time: " + TimeRemaining + " seconds)";
               if (TimeRemaining > 0)
                  Timer = setTimeout("countdown()", 1000);
               else
               {
                  document.submitform.submitbutton.value = "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   too late   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -";
                  alert("Sorry, it's too late  :(");
               }
             }
           // -->

In the javascript console if you set TimeRemaining = 60 then the js will not time out. Does the server do some sort of backend checking also? I havent tested that part lol

[Assassian360]

In the javascript console if you set TimeRemaining = 60 then the js will not time out. Does the server do some sort of backend checking also? I havent tested that part lol

yes, it would check the time. The javascript front end is just to allow you to see the time remaining and is not the actual part that imposes the restriction. Otherwise it would be too easy to get through the time based missions.

[secretformula]

That makes a lot of sense now sorry I hasily replied

[asleep777]

Howdy!

I have gotten most of the errors that tell me my perl script did not log in, now I am just getting a 302 found when I am running the login part of the script. I am working in two parts, the shift part is complete, so to get more familiarity with perl, I am logging in with the script as well.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar( {file => "$ENV{HOME}./cookies.txt" } );
my $req = POST 'http://www.hackthissite.org/user/login',[PHPSESSID => '4d07p5mgi4alr71p6v11vuk0f6'];
$req->header('Referer','http://www.hackthissite.org/user/login');
my $res = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success) {
  print $res->content;
} else {
  print $res->status_line . "\n";
}

So what does the 302 Found response mean?

Well, I have answered the 392 Found question, and got the same result as if I have sent the request twice. However, It just returns me to the login page and doesn't show my user name which leads me to believe that I am not logged in..

So different question with same intent: What next?