Rankk.org Topic - Interacting via Python

• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Pri. FaTaL_PrIdE 5 from on 2012-08-29 06:56:49

  Hi,

  
  this may have been asked but scanning the forum didnt yield a useful reponse (although I saw a topic on SSL causing issues).

  Just trying to solve challenges using pythons urllib and its not using my cookies to authenticate I dont think? Which cookies are needed? With SSL and IP logins disabled, I'm using

  
  opener = urllib.FancyURLopener()
  opener.addheader('Cookie', 'go="<snip>"; info=kDK-<snip>6fQPMSU4w; useip=;')
  f = opener.open("http://www.rankk.org/challenges/xxxii.py")

   

  Specifically on 5/2 though I'm getting refferred to the home page rather than the xxxii.py file.

  Apologies if this is a dumb question.... assuming its been asked before but having no luck here

  Thanks for the challenges and the ongoing time and maintainance :)

  FP

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• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Geb. shortbreak 1613 from on 2012-08-29 19:52:24 Reply

  Well, "info" is needed always and does not survive logging out. If I recall there is also a problem with two logins.

  Are you getting "info" from a previous or different session ?

  I use Perl for the time limited challenges but ,sadly, Rankk can force one to have contact with many unclean languages ;)

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• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Pri. FaTaL_PrIdE 5 from on 2012-08-30 02:04:50 Reply

  Thanks for the response shortbreak.

  ok, so info is the required cookie in theory....

  I realise it does not survive logging out but even deliberately logging back in to get a fresh cookie and using that still doesnt work for me.

  Anyone managed to get it going with python? I could use php/perl but half my reason for doing these is to improve my python so I'm not sure I want to use another scripting language. I'd probably just use JS via greasemonkey anyway.

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• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Geb. clytorock 7 on 2012-08-30 11:22:43 Reply

  may be a useragent issue ???

  it shoudn't be the case with programming challenges, but currently there is a check ... the site don't recognize  you as loggedin if you change it

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• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Pri. FaTaL_PrIdE 5 from on 2012-08-31 05:33:17 Reply

  Ah..... that might well be it :)

  Thank you - the user-agent default is urllib/python.2.7 or something as opposed to my Firefox usre-agent.

  I'll look into testing that later when I get home!

  Thank you for takin the time to respond clytorock - much appreciated

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• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Pri. FaTaL_PrIdE 5 from on 2012-08-31 07:59:39 Reply

  Worked a charm, thank you.

  For those attempting the challenge, ensure you account for user agents as well as cookies.

  Last edited on 2012-08-31 10:04:38 by Pri. FaTaL_PrIdE

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• • Re^2: Interacting via Python

    Posted by Pha. Sphinx 6553 from on 2012-08-31 08:11:42 Reply

    Please remove the Python code, because I feel that figuring out this part is a challenge in itself.

    Yes, the user-agent part didn't exist before, so this issue only surfaced recently.

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• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Pri. FaTaL_PrIdE 5 from on 2012-08-31 10:05:03 Reply

  Done, thanks Sphinx.

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• Interacting via Python

  Posted by Viz. dbumathlete 9 from on 2020-04-07 01:50:06 Reply

  Extremely helpful post, I'm a little confused about setting the go= key though...

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