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Challenge 'Glowing Referral'

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:00 pm
by hoki
Hey all,

I'm positive that I am loading the challenge with the required credentials, still it gives me

'http://whitehouse.gov/' is incorrect.

as an error message. Am I missing anything from the challenge description? Any hint would be most welcome :)

Thanks and a special 'thumbs up' to the maintainers of this site!

Hoki

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:03 pm
by rmplpmpl
I think you don't want the terminal slash to be there, try another tool

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:45 pm
by hoki
Thanks a lot, that was exactly it. I thought the slash had been added server side, but it worked fine with that command line tool :) Only thing I had to achieve first was to export the cookies from the Firefox DB so I could reuse them...

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:31 am
by PrincessQTPi
confused

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:47 am
by hoki
PrincessQTPi wrote:confused
Why exactly?

Cheers, Hoki

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:20 am
by PrincessQTPi
all of it i have no clue what to do.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:49 pm
by hoki
PrincessQTPi wrote:all of it i have no clue what to do.
I think I can say that you should look out for an HTTP field that tells the server about where you are coming from. Then you have to figure out a way to modify it.

Cheers, Hoki

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:04 am
by Acitran
i always get the answer:
'' is incorrect.
what am i doing wrong?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:17 pm
by Axxaran
You dont get an answer if you don't send an answer...

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:10 am
by stormiii17
can this be done in php? i'm so lost. ><

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:51 am
by b0bA
stormiii17 wrote:can this be done in php? i'm so lost. ><
Sure. You can use PHP, Python, Java, etc or even wget.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 6:04 am
by mukanga
Hi there! I'm a little bit lost too. I'm trying to submit the answer through wget like i did many times before. But I always get
'' is incorrect
Even if I submit the answer through the site a get something like
Like i've submit all that answer :?

So, can you tell me at least if this is normal or give me any tip?

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:12 pm
by SnakeSnake
mukanga: In this particular challenge the server does not look for the answer in the query string part of the URL but somewhere else. Finding out where is the challenge here...

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:22 pm
by Millennium
-_- I actually went to whitehouse.gov, modified the HTML, and submitted to http://www.hacker.org/challenge/chal.php?id=38 from it. It returns: "'http://whitehouse.gov/' is incorrect"

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:45 pm
by rmplpmpl
This challenge is not so much about what you submit but from _where_ you do it... unless you have physical access to the White House you will need other ways to hack this one