h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just after I posted that my CPU temperature warning went off and I had to reboot to make the thing shut up (after bumping the fan speed up a bit). I'm currently dancing the fine line between too hot and too loud. So that's why my eyes weren't there. It's got nothing to do with such power, if I had that I could reach into the servers and post in four places simultaneously.

Ah... you can do that with a CGI script! Just write a simple form that posts four inreplyto= numbers and four messages to your script with different names, then spawn four HTTP requests from the CGI script to post everything within nanoseconds of each other...

Worth a try

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Hmm. You'd have to find some way of replicating the whole cookie authentication system here too (shouldn't be too hard)

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Eh?

MaW was saying he needed superpowers to get to post four messages in four different places at once. h2g2 just uses ordinary forms to submit postings (no https or owt) so all MaW really needs to do is create a CGI script that handles four postings at once.

However, h2g2 does use cookies to determine who has posted what message, so the form would have to be submitted from a browser that had the cookie that says "MaW is logged in".

Of course, there could be some clever "form has to be submitted from within h2g2" trick in place to stop flooding and the like, in which case all I've just said is complete and utter twoddle. You're an italic, Mina - you know better than me

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*nods wisely*

Yes. Exactly.

That should have been twaddle - or twoodle to stay in character.

Perhaps "two"ddle is doubly rubbish.

Not more owl jokes! Help me!

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No, you're doomed ... DOO-OO-OOMED ... by your own nickname. It's a bit like being hoist with your own petard but make that an owl facade in this case.

No! Leave me alone!

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Oh dear. [looks around for hanky/towel/flowers/choc but realises there is something much more suitable...]

Here, this won't help. (©v©)

In fact, so could probably just load multiple windows one for each message, and click submit on the very close together. If you want to know how to do it with CGI you should talk to S'pe;lug:x, he's been looking into that sort of thing.

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PS This is not spam, honest.

I have a better way to flood forum conversations...





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Eh? Talk to me? Oh the hoobot, there's a thread about that on the bugfinder's page: F110737?thread=255846. Basically I've abandoned the first prototype version which could actually post and worked and are now working on a abject-oriented one, which will also work but is much cooler because it uses HTML::TreeBuilder not a TokeParser, so the code is actually maintainable. Thankfully I don't expect the skins to change anytime soon

Login support is easy. LWP (web-access modules for perl) have good cookie support so you just visit the right RegProcess url and you've got a cookie to use.

spelugx

I like the idea of an "abject-oriented" one - especially for sad owls, depressed androids etc.

All my programming appears to be abject-oriented...

G'aaaaaaaaaaaah at my final year project! Modelmaking is easier in Airfix than it is in Java (the most abject language)!

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