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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:49 pm
by Entropy|Immortal
I put this in my crontab:
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* * * * * lynx -dump http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php >> .minuteman
And after letting it run for a while:
The output consisted of a blank line (apparently lynx always ends it's dumps with a blank line Oo), "back later" and the solution…
My box is up 24/7 anyway so I had no problem with letting the script run all night
umm..
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:59 am
by gsjfoe
maybe i am a lucky man ...i solve this challenge without writing script...i just opened that page yesterday (10:52 AM)..and i surprised the page tell me the answer ..
i'm just lucky...
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:44 pm
by pedromalta
Created a loop bash script that output the Curl to a file, and since Curl would rewrite the file i then Cat the output and appended it on another file, got a long list like that
<html><body>back later
<html><body>back later
<html><body>back later
with the answer in the middle, could replace the <html><body>back later with a blank space, but i just scroll it down it was a lot longer and very easy to spot....
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#!/bin/bash
while true;
do
clear
curl http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php -o /home/pedromalta/minuteman | cat minuteman >> minuteman2
sleep 10
done
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:14 am
by Mokor
Did it in Groovy. Getting the text from the Website and comparing it to the previous result.
If there is a difference it is shown on the console. The programm ran for 514minutes
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def url = new URL('http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php')
def data = url.getText()
def result = data
def i = 0;
while(result.equals(data)) {
println i++
sleep(60000)
data = url.getText()
if(!data.equals(result)) {
println data
}
}
iMacro Solution
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:12 pm
by tolgaulusoy
i used iMacro with Firefox :
Every 10 Sec* 60*24 mal with play loop
URL GOTO=
http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php
WAIT SECONDS=10
SAVEAS TYPE=TXT FOLDER=D:\Hacker.org\oneminute FILE=+{{!NOW:yyyyddhhmmss}}
Then ordered by file size
Bingo
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:06 am
by neochronomo
I basically did what everyone else did: I wrote a script (php) that checked the page every minute for the content to be different than "back later". Further, I had it send me a text message when this was the case! Finally got the text at 11:52 eastern time and it was very exciting. I wrote the script last night around the same time so I must've JUST missed it. Was getting really worried that something was wrong with my code and that I'd have to test another whole day, but no, it just waited til 8 minutes before midnight to increase the suspense haha.
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 4:10 am
by metamilo
I ran this little php script on my WAMP using localhost/filename.php in my browser.
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<?php
$page = file_get_contents("http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php?name=metamilo&spw=MY_SPW");
while (strpos($page,"back later")){
sleep(55);
$page = file_get_contents("http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php?name=metamilo&spw=MY_SPW");
}
echo $page;
?>
It took about 4 hours.
left Ruby running
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:49 am
by tenx212
It seems php is the most popular language, but I did it in ruby and it worked as well:
#one minute man
def checkPage()
require 'open-uri'
while true
answer = open('
http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php') {|f| f.read }
if !answer.include? "back later"
return answer
end
sleep 59
end
end
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 5:18 am
by dyarbrough93
Since I don't see node on here, here's mine:
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const wget = require('node-wget')
const url = 'http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php'
function get() {
wget({
url: url
}, function(err, res, body) {
if (body !== '<html><body>\nback later') {
console.log('::::::::::::::ANSWER:::::::::::::::')
console.log(body)
console.log(res)
console.log(':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::')
process.exit()
} else setTimeout(get, 50000)
})
}
get()
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:11 pm
by elmarko
One liner:
watch -t -n 20 "curl
http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php >> output" &
20 secs just so I didn’t miss it
Then ran uniq on the output