Programming 12

[FireEagle]

Make sure you have no '1' or '0' in your lists. You should be getting this: 111435 as the result of the numbers and yes, that is the algorithm for it.

Thanks for the hint, I solved the problem!

[Defience]

You're welcome

[furtypajohn]

FYI, I completed this mission "by hand" using emacs, what started out as a perl script but ultimately became a jar file, and a handy little application called "xclip."

I was able to copy the text, execute the keyboard macro, and paste the answer with about 1.5/2 seconds to spare.

If you're attempting this method remember to put the text into quotes otherwise the command line will screw with the input and you'll get invalid answers...

Just thought I'd offer another way to go about entering the answer.

Enjoy.

[msbachman]

Check this out. Here's the value that the page is giving me, and here's what I'm sending:

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value="bw@1m6oofb24@n8?ozim5rtl$dj$0lzw1d9fbfny?1rizsf$ak7p02oihntav$opejni3i5roh110zff90$jgdzu20y$yn9gpm$qy5$6uhq3vqes2j@x8ji5w991#m58as98wv4fwi07uvywlupdjc3sd2f8?90egud7udccs$3uhds?9cqq77cbzccf#z0l3zg8tnmb?35cz@r@r@qlkdcg@um@9o9a?na$x1h@g@nh#t0snxkk@t9ciu@itnm3@vf97$jv?o9gkj7kvw#7bnegcjwg79hio3yc@0$vw4k?twciups7vi3an?@82rye7$ezja7012tguywjmvge5hpnjay9n5k2t7o06vbsnr442vf9wqdkdjhr1uyqlpxfd8q4mozomcj7vj2st3rb7mhuso@47bjeh3ob?d?b@y1nwnix2um$4bl$ddpst5z41n$#c#rjzy@cmgf4rwoqba8$pa35xlcrds$j?vv4#p5f4z3u94c0ywz2lfc3njeiqpj5rjkd4cztl$8crwxyfef@$hpt2$gd$0k9uzxo5?0kze0c5z35efnigmo0#2c#6ojvxi@#sg#d3ha?a3twl@ibg2htvilzah0s7tj4lud1r7gd?mulnh?k@?@4soz9"


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POST /missions/prog/12/index.php HTTP/1.1

Host: www.hackthissite.org

User-Agent: [edit]
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 115

Connection: keep-alive

Referer: http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/12/index.php

Cookie: [edited]
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Content-Length: 94



solution=cxAnppgcAo@p{jnsum%ek%m{x102039&submitbutton=Submit+%28remaining+time%3A+4+seconds%29



As far as I am aware, I'm not doing anything wrong. Yet this happens consistently. What is going on? I'm guessing it's my code...but if so, what's the deal? The output is correct, is it not?

[OnlyHuman]

Your output is close, but not entirely correct. I would suggest double checking the part of your program that separates the prime from composite numbers again. Also, the use of:

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&submitbutton=Submit+%28remaining+time%3A+4+seconds%29

might be causing an issue with form submission. Try using just:

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&submitbutton=Submit

Without the remaining time.

[msbachman]

[Screwed up my post. Sorry]

-- Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:34 pm --

Finally did it after about four weeks of hard work in C.

Miracles all up in this bitch.

[secdef9]

Check this out. Here's the value that the page is giving me, and here's what I'm sending:
...

As far as I am aware, I'm not doing anything wrong. Yet this happens consistently. What is going on? I'm guessing it's my code...but if so, what's the deal? The output is correct, is it not?

That's not the output I got. Take another look at how you came up with the numbers that you concatenated.


EDIT: Stupid me, you already solved it. Well, nice going.

[dopamine10]

I've been trying to do this for two days now

Anyway, getting the answer was easy, but I can't figure out how to correctly submit POST data while using my cookie to be logged in....I'm using Python

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#We at least log in here
headers = {'Cookie': 'PHPSESSID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,'Referer':url}
response, content = http.request(url, "POST", headers=headers)

#This creates incorrect referer
#data = dict(solution=answer)
#response, content = http.request(url, "POST", urlencode(data))

print content


I'm still trying to figure out how to combine a cookie with a post to submit my answer.....

[fashizzlepop]

I don't know about python, but in Perl you would set up an OO interface that will capture the cookies when you login, then the next time you POST or GET it will automatically spit back the proper cookies.

[msbachman]

Anyway, getting the answer was easy, but I can't figure out how to correctly submit POST data while using my cookie to be logged in....I'm using Python

I'm still trying to figure out how to combine a cookie with a post to submit my answer.....

Protip: use wireshark and submit some trash normally (just type something into the box quickly). Then, you'll know how to submit it.

I think I can say this without spoiling it, you submit the cookie, then there's a double "\r\n\r\n" and you post the data.

If you're having trouble with wireshark, you can also set up a capture filter for port 80 or a display filter for http. That will cut down on the amount of traffic to sort through.