Re: wget and captcha puzzle !!!
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:39:25 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> My internet provider provides an online form accessed by local IP (the
> connection is based on eth); so that the subscriber can provide username
> and password to activate the login; additionally it also has a captcha
> as added security. I am trying to make a daemon which just do the login
> and activate the connection.
(...)
> If I visit the url
> http://192.168.1.108/captcha.phtml?r=003665dd765d04967a7e00071e6af4a1
> again and again; every time I get a new captcha. So when I submitting
> the captcha by wget; it is already changes to a new one !!!! How can I
> overcome this puzzle ? The form (through browser) gives a failure notice
> when captcha code doesn't match. Is it possible to collect the failure
> notice through wget somehow for debugging ?
>
> Please give me some clue. I just like my linux script do the login and
> activate internet. Thanks
If the captcha code auto-reloads it could be due to a session tracking
cookie or some kind of time-based script in place. Not sure how to bypass
that, it will depend on how the page is coded :-?
I would first try to keep all those wget steps in just one session by
capturing the cookie (if any) that stores the session ID.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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