Timed 6

This one seems easy enough. dictionary to get the 'seventh' = 7 part. simple parsing for the number.

I'm just having a hard time with the RE to grab a line of html. I don't wanna spoil, but the html is <a href="[URL]" class=l onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','[nth result]','')"> My RE is HIDEOUS. having " and ' and needing python escapes as weel as re escape makes it worse. Anyone have a relatively simple RE for this?

a good way to do this is the HTMLParser class in python.

And theres a good article and code bank bit for this particular challenge.

read

http://www.hellboundhackers.org/articles/841-using-python-39;s-htmlparser-class.html

http://www.hellboundhackers.org/code/readcode.php?id=1145

as for the capturing of the item needed you could do something like this

google_term=re.findall('<strong>[a-z\s\w]+</strong>', source)[-2]

Yes, i have it all.

I use the HTMLParser to find all class=l a href links, then i grab the nth. I base64.encode() it, then throw it in as an argument, but it does work. I then tried adding some extra info, but i kept that info blank, hoping it would change the method to POST, but it's either not changing it to POST or it's still not working.

You dont sound like you are doing this in python….

You're right, I don't know what language I'm programming in. :right:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import base64
...
b64url = base64.b64encode(url)
...
result = opener.open("http://www.hellboundhackers.org/challenges/timed/timed6/index.php?url=%s" % b64url, blankdata)

The_Gman wrote: You're right, I don't know what language I'm programming in. :right:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import base64
...
b64url = base64.b64encode(url)
...
result = opener.open("http://www.hellboundhackers.org/challenges/timed/timed6/index.php?url=%s" % b64url, blankdata)

You are using a GET request. Try reading this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-June/268493.html

stdio wrote: [quote]The_Gman wrote: You're right, I don't know what language I'm programming in. :right:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import base64
...
b64url = base64.b64encode(url)
...
result = opener.open("http://www.hellboundhackers.org/challenges/timed/timed6/index.php?url=%s" % b64url, blankdata)

You are using a GET request. Try reading this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-June/268493.html[/quote]

But I'm including some url encoded data, the manual said it should work as post.

should i even url encode the url=? part?

Thanks

The_Gman wrote: You're right, I don't know what language I'm programming in. :right:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import base64
...
b64url = base64.b64encode(url)
...
result = opener.open("http://www.hellboundhackers.org/challenges/timed/timed6/index.php?url=%s" % b64url, blankdata)

Alright sorry man…. try using urllib2's Request class.

I made it so it posts. This is the header

POST /challenges/timed/timed6/index.php HTTP/1.1 Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 52 Connection: close User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.5 Host: www.hellboundhackers.org Cookie:cookiestuff Referer: http://www.hellboundhackers.org/index.php Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tb3ppbGxhLm9yZy9kb3dubG9hZC5odG1s

The word i got was firefox 4th entry http://www.mozilla.org/download.html

Does that look right?

Thanks,