hacker.org challenge overview

[m!nus]

My challenge overview script is back!

With SPW support and with your personal challenge map.
It's now easier to find your desired challenges since the script allows you to choose which categories to show and even let's you view them by difficulty.

https://hoco.mnus.de/
Hosted version is unavailable and probably will stay unavailable. The source code is still available for download.

Sourcecode:
download hoco-release-0.3.2.tar.gz
To run this you require PHP5 (not sure if it works with PHP4) with SimpleXML enabled (default) and the PECL extension pecl_http

Screenshots:


fyi:
your password doesn't get stored, only xml data, generated image and settings do, for caching purposes. If you choose to save the SPW it gets stored in a cookie.

edit july 2012: fixed screenshot links & verified that the script still works
edit april 2017: notice that the hosted version is not available anymore
edit december 2023: https links. i'm not letting the links rot


Original Post:

This is a script I wrote which lets you display the challenges you can see on the map.
You can sort them, choose which challenges to display and which not.

http://minus.denn1s.cn/hacker.org/hoco.php


Passwords do not get saved of course.
Settings are saved. Edit: they were saved but not loaded on login; fixed

Feedback is desired


A special thanks goes to Dennis for hosting this. He even installed an addon the script needs.

[tails]

It seems not working now.

[canine]

This is a script I wrote which lets you display the challenges you can see on the map.
You can sort them, choose which challenges to display and which not.

http://minus.denn1s.cn/hacker.org/hoco.php


Passwords do not get saved of course.
Settings are saved. Edit: they were saved but not loaded on login; fixed

Feedback is desired


A special thanks goes to Dennis forhosting this. He even installed an addon the script needs.

Can we see the source?

[m!nus]

sure, why not, I think it is uploaded already some place *searching*
http://minus.denn1s.cn/hacker.org/hoco.tar.gz there you go

[adum]

i would recommend using the spw param instead of password. that would let people use your service without entering their password. i _think_ it should work for what you need.

[m!nus]

the problem is i need to log in in the forum itself to get the cookie since get.php doesn't support these params. if you would provide this i could remove a lot of code but also had to cache the password/passphrase; currently i only get the cookie and save it for the session.

[adum]

which get.php are you referring to? part of the forum?

[m!nus]

nope, the one that delivers the XML

[adum]

ah. i've updated get.php so you can pass spw now.

[m!nus]

where's the description of the parameters again?

[adum]

http://www.hacker.org/challenge/about.php

[therethinker]

Is there a spw for every game/challenge (i.e. modulo)? Submitting my password as plaintext has been bothering me ever since I started...

[adum]

should work for all the puzzles too, i believe. i agree that submitting a plaintext pw is not so great =)

[Spiriteg]

i love this site

[m!nus]

spw doesnt work on challenge pages, only name&password do.
for example for protected password 3 it says "no start time", assuming that because i dont have a session it fails to get a start time