Re: Redirect on authentication

2009-02-25 Thread Jeff Davis
Hi, Scripted logins are generally purposely hard to crack. There is quite possibly hidden vars along with the user and pass, sometimes javascript modifies a post field before it's sent and also cookies are set that must be duplicated. I have always found a packet analyzer helpful such as

Re: I am having issues logging into a website and retrieving the source of the page after login

2010-02-13 Thread Jeff Davis
Hi Robert, The usual practice for this kind of task is to use a packet sniffer and compare the actual data that is transmitted across the wire when you use a browser and the same when your application runs, then see what is different. Wireshark (www.*wireshark*.org) works well for this if

Re: Getting past authentication to Flickr/Yahoo

2010-05-05 Thread Jeff Davis
sebb wrote: On 05/05/2010, lsacco occ...@gmail.com wrote: olegk wrote: Yahoo as well as other high profile sites intentionally make it very difficult to script their login process. Yeah, no kidding! Here's my code...I basically combed there form and create new NameValuePairs for