One Minute Man doesn't function

Donster · Post by **Donster** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:42 pm

Hi folks!
I think the 'One-Minute-Man' does not function anymore.
I've wrote a little prog, that visited the lazy-Oracle every 10 seconds for 24 hours. The Prog should also save the sourcecode of the page.
After 24 hours, I put the 8640 html-files (24 x 60 x 6 = 8640) to a Text-file to analyze them.
The result in every line:<html><body>back later
So! Is there anyone, who can help me? I'm realy desparing.
Thanks for all little Hints.

Andr3w · Post by **Andr3w** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:11 pm

i didn't solve it already, but

did you save every single answer with the time your prog read it in this txtfile or not?

could happen that the server or your pc/ router/ etc was a bit laggy

cyberwoozle · Post by **cyberwoozle** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:35 pm

It definitely works - i solved it last night

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:40 pm

Yes it works. Pobably a problem of a cache?
The difference comes in the night, depending on where you live...

Andr3w · Post by **Andr3w** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:44 pm

another question:

i don't have a chance to be in the internet all night long ...

shouldn't it be possible to download the file and open it offline every 10 ecs ?

if it works or if its programmed like i think, it should ...

everyone tried this, yet ?

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:49 pm

Yes, definitively tried

You have to get the respone directly...

Andr3w · Post by **Andr3w** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:46 pm

directly from the online page alias the server?
or only from the *.php

rmplpmpl · Post by **rmplpmpl** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:58 pm

solved it today, forgot to add a time stamp so I don't know WHEN I was lucky... My script loaded the page in 45 second intervalls

theStack · Post by **theStack** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:24 am

Andr3w wrote:another question:

i don't have a chance to be in the internet all night long ...

Hint from mine, just two words: SSH and nohup

sigi · Post by **sigi** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:38 am

theStack wrote:Hint from mine, just two words: SSH and nohup

That won't help him if he's (a) on a dial-up connection and (b) does not have ready access to a box that is always on.

In fact, this challenge is not solvable under certain conditions.

the_impaler · Post by **the_impaler** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:42 am

I wonder what those conditions would be...
It does not take much more time than typing the message on this forum. It took me a good 2 months to get to the solution but when I finally figured it out it was a matter of a few minutes. You are probably giving too much credits to this 'oracle' - I took the wrong turn and spent a good amount of time reading about "Turing's oracle" problem and 'lazy oracle' implementation in ACM publications. If you want to discuss there is "Challenges solved" forum for it.

theStack · Post by **theStack** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:32 pm

sigi wrote:
theStack wrote:Hint from mine, just two words: SSH and nohup
That won't help him if he's (a) on a dial-up connection and (b) does not have ready access to a box that is always on.

In fact, this challenge is not solvable under certain conditions.

Well it's not that hard to get access to such a box, there are dozens of sites which offer free accounts

sigi · Post by **sigi** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:15 am

theStack wrote:Well it's not that hard to get access to such a box, there are dozens of sites which offer free accounts :)

Sites that offer free accounts for you to run scripts and programs? I really doubt that. Show me one such offer please.

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:26 pm

It works. The time is very iritating, but it is easily solved by refreshing the page very 30 seconds and comparing the html to the other pages.