But it would appear that most of the hacker.org challenges and games do not require primitive stuffs (proof by counterexample) - I'm just assuming that the problems of information hiding in network APIs are largely sorted out already - and, indeed, when I find myself having to use CURL or similar, I realise just why people have expended so much effort in finding ways to make them much easier to use (such as wrapping them in HttpWebRequest).camel wrote:actually you should almost be able to do a http_post request via telnet only. you need it everywhere ... from benchmarking, manipulating online games, automating stuff on the web, programming apps, using rest/oauth/etc. apis, writing a webspider, writing pentest tools, debuging websites, etc. ... it is hard for me to acceppt that anyone playing "hacker.org" games would not know how to do something primitive as this. i am not meaning to be rude it just sounds weird to me. it is like you are writing new software for your car's ECU not knowing how to change tires.laz0r wrote:Post isn't very primitive - matrix manipulation can be worked out with pencil and paper, while Post can't.camel wrote:people know about matrix manipulation stuff but fail with such a primitive thing as a http_post request? serious facepalm.
Stuck at level 91? (Server fault?)
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