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Posted by Shank on 12/07/05 15:38
"Kim Andrι Akerψ" <kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com> wrote in message
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> Shank wrote:
>
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>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in
>> message news:x4mz96op7ey5.7ejmwfl46jb5$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> > Shank wrote:
>> >
>> > > I would not have access to the code or page design in any way. I'm
>> > > trying to design a macro that would submit a form on someone
>> > > else's site.
>> >
>> > Ok, now you have piqued my curiosity. Why ... do you want to use a
>> > "macro" to submit a form on someone else's site?
>> >
>> > Sounds nefarious. Like spamming .. or mailbombing the owner ..
>>
>> poppycock! Not even close to anything like that. Because it's not
>> possible, no sense in discussing. thanks
>
> It IS possible. In fact, I'm even doing that as we speak to someone to
> sent me a scam mail. In Norwegian, mind you! (My native tongue!)
>
> So I decided I'd send an invoice to the company who sent me the scam
> mail for services done on the site "as part of your job request" (page
> testing, validation, that sort of thing). I didn't get as far as
> putting stamps on the envelope when I found several news articles (from
> reliable news sources), describing these people as scammers (as their
> so-called address was pointing to a nonexistant mail box at an
> apartment building - they did try to ring every doorbell in that
> building, without a trace of the company).
>
> By taking a quick look at their order form, I found it to be insecure
> enough for me to write a quick Perl script that generates a random
> e-mail address (of the example.com domain-type) and processes the order
> form with a blank order, invalid credit card (I believe I set it to
> "1234567890123456"). This script is run on a cron job (scheduled task)
> every minute, from 4 different Linux computers. That makes 4 invalid
> orders a minute, 60 times per hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I
> can only imagine the face of the bastard who has to sift through over
> 5760 e-mails to find that 99.9% of them are completely bogus.
>
> Serves them right to try to mess with me.
>
> --
> Kim Andrι Akerψ
> - kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com
> (remove NOSPAM to contact me directly)
>>Serves them right to try to mess with me<<
<LOL> OK... for all that, I can explain a bit more. I am part of a
membership that must actively participate in a website every week. Because I
don't have the time, I've written a macro that interacts with the website as
needed. However, on the login page, I can tab to the submit button and issue
and <enter> key. For whatever reason, this does not work about 20% of the
time. I don't know why. I just thought if I hard-coded a URL, it would solve
the problem.
Thanks!
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