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January 12th, 2007, 03:47 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by edman007

if you do a captcha then could you put the battle form (where you select what to do and hit submit) before the entire battle transcript, it gets long and i don't like to scroll that much

Wouldn't it be better if someone made the battles use named anchors to jump down to the last action - it would take 10 seconds and put an end to scrolling.

This works fine with GET or POST in Firefox and IE:

Code:

<form action="mosterbattle.php?var1=1&var2=2#action<?php echo $action_num;?>" method="post">

Or at least write the action quotes inside a div with vertical scrollbars.

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January 12th, 2007, 04:53 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by b3n

Code:

<form action="mosterbattle.php?var1=1&var2=2#action<?php echo $action_num;?>" method="post">

Or at least write the action quotes inside a div with vertical scrollbars.

yea, thats just fine, i just don't like scrolling down 10 pages just to hit submit

but after thinking about it i thought it may be better to reverse the quotes and put the inputs at the top, so the latest one shows up first, right below inputs, however the anchors in the form seem like a perfectly acceptable way to do it

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January 20th, 2007, 02:22 AM

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As f'lar said; you've got a programming forum, do you really expect us all not to cheat and write bots?

And while I think I'll take a crack at breaking the CAPTCHA you have in place via some dodgy OCR a bit later, there are much easier attacks against it.

Simply put - you don't invalidate the validation code after it has been used once. Its a problem a lot of CAPTCHA implementations face. Because while you do regenerate the CAPTCHA image (and therefore invalidate the previous one), you don't invalidate the code once it has been used, and so if I don't make any requests to showcap.php file after I've checked the image once, then I can keep reusing the same CAPTCHA number again and again.

You'd think people working for a development forum would be able to get these simple things right though,

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Originally Posted by edman007

BTW, i too promise not to run a bot...

I on the other hand promise no such thing, but I really don't care enough to modify my bot; even to attack that simple hole.

P.S. Javascript + Greasemonkey is a great way to write simple bots like this one quickly and easily.

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January 20th, 2007, 03:06 AM

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On a programming forum it should be quite expected that we'd write stuff

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February 14th, 2007, 12:17 AM

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WRT the captcha image: Out-of-the-box GOCR gets the current image 95% of the time, and there's a Windows build of it. You might want to consider a better captcha.

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February 14th, 2007, 12:23 AM

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I check the top 10 stats pretty often so I would see if anyone leveled up too quickly but hasn't been an issue yet. Not saying that it won't be done but we can track it at this point

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