Programming 1

[UsernameNotAvailable]

easy peasy lemon squeesy

[ZyrgEr]

Okay now I'm being a real noob and I need help.

I'm using perl (could also use any else language) and I don't know how to get the problem. Every time I try to get everything from i.e. http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/1/ I run to problem where I need to login. Well I'm logged with firefox and I know I have to use cookies somehow. Problems are I don't know how I believe cookies are stored in cookies.sqlite and I dont know how get data from it and how to send it so I can retrieve the full website.

Thanks in advance

EDIT:
I dont know what the heck I did different but somehow the exactly same code works now Im quite amazed

[NoviceBlackout]

Well, if you people are having trouble, it took me about 40 minutes to make a program to do it in excel.

I also did this in excel as I found it the easiest way to transfer the word list in and get the answer out

[ZyrgEr]

got stuck for like thee hours because I didnt notice that wordlist.txt was in some dos format
I was about lose my mind because perl says "someword" is NOT equal to "someword".
Otherwise it was a good warmup mission

[LoGiCaL__]

perl says "someword" is NOT equal to "someword".

Interesting point. I've actually come across something similar to this at work. Because I was getting input from a file there was formatting issues when comparing strings. Ended up being that there was also line feeds, carraige returns and tabs along with the string which can be unseen to the eye. I was dealing with this in sql, so I used the replace function with the respected char() value from the ascii chart. Since it's perl you can try chomp then compare the strings again to see if they match.

[KthProg]

For entertainment, I'm going to post a modified version of the VBA form I created to solve this problem.
The modified version has some extra features and is not quite the one I used to find the answer (it's a LOT more complicated)
uh...how do i upload a file?
There is a lot of unneccesary code now since I built it up quite a bit lol.
It's all stored in an excel spreadsheet so I'd have to upload it...
any idea how?

[-Ninjex-]

For entertainment, I'm going to post a modified version of the VBA form I created to solve this problem.
The modified version has some extra features and is not quite the one I used to find the answer (it's a LOT more complicated)
uh...how do i upload a file?
There is a lot of unneccesary code now since I built it up quite a bit lol.
It's all stored in an excel spreadsheet so I'd have to upload it...
any idea how?

You do not post answers on the forum...
period.

[lucantrop]

As with everything in life, hacking related or not, don't make things too complicated. You don't even need to do any permutations. Both the scrambled and the original word have the same alphabetical letter order, don't they? Use that to your advantage, the code will be a quicker and shorter, mine ended up being 20 lines of code in python.
Also, for all those that have the correct words, but are not accepted, they need to be in the same order as given to you, separated by commas, w/out any spaces.
Hope I didn't give away too much tho. Good luck

[KthProg]

No they dont have the same letter order theyre scrambled...? wtf are you talking about...

[vv0lf]

Done in Python

The fun part was making it as memory efficient as possible~
I'm interested to know how easy/hard it is in other languages