Mortal coil level 25 unsolvable

CodeX · Post by **CodeX** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:09 am

You should be able to retrieve the pages with something like this, where you stick a url encoded version of your password on the end:

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http://www.hacker.org/coil/index.php?name=0xDEAD+BEEF&password=

to go to a specific level you would put this onto the end of the URL

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&gotolevel=NUMBER&go=Go+To+Level

and then when you want to submit for your last retrieved level you add

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&x=1&y=1&path=PATH

This should work fine until you get to levels with ridiculously long solutions in which case you will have to use POST instead of GET

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:20 am

I'm sorry, but I think your solver never reached level 62 since you've solved just until level 31. You can only display level n+1 if you have solved level n. You were probably solving the same level over and over.

binarylv · Post by **binarylv** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:51 am

bsguedes, anonymous users can solve as many levels as they want as long as they stay in a session, i.e., use the same cookie over and over again. My guess is that he didn't specify a valid cookie of logged-in session, therefore he was able to make a progress (go from one level to another), but the progress was not saved.

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:59 pm

binarylv wrote:bsguedes, anonymous users can solve as many levels as they want as long as they stay in a session, i.e., use the same cookie over and over again. My guess is that he didn't specify a valid cookie of logged-in session, therefore he was able to make a progress (go from one level to another), but the progress was not saved.

Yeah, I think you're right... I never tried to use a solver in a non-logged section (actually when I want to test a new solver I made, I use an username that I created only for tests... I never thought about trying to use automation in an anonymous session

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extropy · Post by **extropy** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:15 pm

binarylv wrote:bsguedes, anonymous users can solve as many levels as they want as long as they stay in a session, i.e., use the same cookie over and over again. My guess is that he didn't specify a valid cookie of logged-in session, therefore he was able to make a progress (go from one level to another), but the progress was not saved.

Interesting, never knew there was an anonymous mode

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Cheers,
Viesturs

0xDEAD BEEF · Post by **0xDEAD BEEF** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:55 am

Yep! There is anonymous mode!

I was using "user" instead of "name".
Thnx,
Beef

binarylv · Post by **binarylv** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:40 am

extropy wrote:Interesting, never knew there was an anonymous mode .

I'm not sure how it was when you were registering, but now hacker.org requires to solve some puzzle by hand before registering:

Before you can register, please prove you're not a bot by solving a level of any of the puzzles on this site, such as Runaway Robot or Mortal Coil. The come back here and create your account.

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Andrejs