Here is how zoneedit gets updated with wget: wget -O - --http-user=username --http-passwd=password 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=www.mydomain.com'
wget is not "encrypting" the username and password, it is encoding it. If you can figure out how to sniff it, then you can figure out how to decode it ( for perl users see MIME::Base64 ). To be secure, these websites should be using https. -Steve More --- Bruce McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use dyndns as my provider. > Also I saw a while back someone commenting on if you could sniff the > username and password of the dyndns update like my script sends. > Looking at things I think wget is encrypting this information before it > leaves the box, I tried sniffing and got what looked like an encrypted > userdetails. can anyone confirm this? > > Bruce > > > > >A while back I posted problems I was having using ezipupdate on > Bering > > >uClib V2.2 behind a adsl router and having hassles getting the > correct > > >external IP address. > > >In the end I abandoned ezipupdate (nothing wrong with it I just > couldn't > > >get it to work for me) and instead rewrote a script to do the job for > me. > > > > I am seeing similar problems with dyndns.org and ezipupdate. It works > fine though with zoneedit. > > > > Is your dyndns provider dyndns.org. > > Have you been able to determine what's wrong with ezipupd. > > > > Thanks > > Erich > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give > us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out > more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
