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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:20 pm
by karma-fusebox
just solved this one by simply using the infamous javascript/xsrf-thingy...
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http://www.hacker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10478#10478 )
i think there is hardly any more ugly approach.. so what is the
real way to POST data to websites?
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:46 pm
by gfoot
I don't remember this challenge, but probably just make a .html file containing a form with the right post variables? You can also use something like curl or wget from the command line, if you have access to them.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:38 pm
by karma-fusebox
gfoot wrote:make a .html file containing a form with the right post variables?
thats what i did. but it seemed not very professional to me..
so i will have a look at wget/curl if i need this again.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:35 pm
by PeterS
Doing it with curl probably would have been the easiest choice here, since it were only one line.
But I did it with a few lines of Python for my convenience:
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib
url = "http://www.hacker.org/challenge/chal.php"
data = {"answer": "marmelade", "id": "27", "go": "Submit", "name": "PeterS", "spw": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}
print urllib.urlopen(url, urllib.urlencode(data)).read()
Of course you would have to replace the x's with your submit pw, if you wanted to use it.
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:59 pm
by Pappe
I solved this by using firebug, simply edit get to post and execute the modified page
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:22 pm
by PeterS
Wow, that's so much easier, but I didn't think of this method when doing the challenge
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:44 am
by Admiral Beotch
web developer plugin to change form from get to post, then tamper data plugin to modify the answer field.
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:20 am
by Force4
You can also just type some javascript in the address bar of your browser:
javascript:function z(){document.frm.method='POST';};z();
Press enter, and use the form normally.
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:07 pm
by chephy
Ah, this challenge is so much easier using today's browsers, e.g. using Chrome's built-in developer tools: right-click the submit button, choose »Inspect Element«, double-click on the »GET« in the HTML code, write »POST«, press the submit button as usual.
The same probably applies for Firefox in combination with some web developer extensions.
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:24 am
by Guderian
i used "Live HHTP Headers" addon for Firefox. Took me only a couple of seconds
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:12 pm
by Millennium
I used Chrome's Inspect element and replaced "GET" with "POST" and pressed it.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:39 pm
by snoopy1alpha
Firebug FTW