basic 5- how did it work
I spent about an hour or two on basic 5 (much longer than the 2 minutes I spent on 1-3, and still longer than the 5-10 minutes that basic 4 took me) but I'm wondering just why the answer I got worked.
I knew that * was wildcard. I tried some things like : in the username: password field with no luck. I did notice that when I put @.* in the email box it gave me an error saying:
username=* password=*
I thought that might have something to do with something, but I wasn't sure.
Well I got amazingly close to the answer at one point. [I'll not include what I put for fear it might be considered a spoiler] and when I turned up nothing I got frustrated. I went to the forum for a small tip that might help when someone said like "emails are someone @ somewhere . something but instead of .something try :something"
Of course some fools in that thread still couldn't figure it out <.< Sure enough I understood exactly what he said and got it immediately. But I want to know just why the answer worked. Could someone help explain to me exactly what those wildcards replaced and just what I requested from the database?
b1tw1s3 wrote: I spent about an hour or two on basic 5 (much longer than the 2 minutes I spent on 1-3, and still longer than the 5-10 minutes that basic 4 took me) but I'm wondering just why the answer I got worked.
I knew that * was wildcard. I tried some things like : in the username: password field with no luck. I did notice that when I put @.* in the email box it gave me an error saying:
username=* password=*
I thought that might have something to do with something, but I wasn't sure.
Well I got amazingly close to the answer at one point. [I'll not include what I put for fear it might be considered a spoiler] and when I turned up nothing I got frustrated. I went to the forum for a small tip that might help when someone said like "emails are someone @ somewhere . something but instead of .something try :something"
Of course some fools in that thread still couldn't figure it out <.< Sure enough I understood exactly what he said and got it immediately. But I want to know just why the answer worked. Could someone help explain to me exactly what those wildcards replaced and just what I requested from the database?
Add me on AIM, Ill tell you, Id rather not post it in public.
my AIM is: LRS Sungod
Read here:-
http://www.hellboundhackers.org/readarticle.php?article_id=223
it should help,
Cheers
Dantronix