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Deltron Z · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:31 pm Post subject: HackQuest?

I've read about HackQuest in some post in this forum, regarding to some challanges related to primes so I've registered and searched for this challange (number 82) and it looks nice, and generally, this site looks awesome, even thought I didn't dig any deeper than this challange - mainly because I got stuck at it...
Can someone explain the purpose in this challange? it says there's "3 seconds limit" to get a prime number from another page, perform some calculations on it and enter the result. (which is also too long for this text box)
What I thought I have to do is create a program to read the value and post the answer using sockets and by that also bypassing the max-length limit, however, it doesn't seem to work.
Before I post any code or executables or any explaination for that matter, I'd like to know 2 things:
Am I even in the right direction? or am I way off?
And when I post the result, it takes 0.000 seconds to send it, however, it takes 16 seconds to receive about 6KB. when I click the button with the browser it generates an error right away, but when I use sockets to post the request it also returns very weird results, unexpected new-lines and messed up HTML... perhaps it prevents somehow from doing such a thing so I won't use any external programs to calculate the result? should I try JavaScript and set the answer the at text box instead?

Thanks.

atom0s · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:42 pm Post subject:

The objective of the challenge is to compute the number given with their steps, then send the result back to their service within the 3 seconds.

As stated on the page:

Deltron Z · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:30 am Post subject:

I don't want a solution just yet, so I won't download it right now.
I also wrote such a program, but instead of sending a GET request to serivce.php I thought I have to send POST request to 9814165717.php, like in the form "<form action=".../91...php", so I'm a little confused...

As I said, I've already written a lil' something to do this, but after sending the POST request it takes 16 seconds to respond...

Edit: why does my cookie look like this now?

atom0s · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:55 am Post subject:

At the top of the site there is a link called 'Rank Up!' you put any of the long messages they give you in there to mark the challenge as completed.

As for the cookie, don't worry about it, it was a joke one of the administrators did during an April fools prank I believe it was and it was never removed. There was info on their forum about it but it's not to worry about.

The send back to the service page, as I said above is learned throughout doing other challenges on their site. A few of them get into detail on how to send the answer back to their service pages which becomes a frequently used method of finishing some of the challenges.

Deltron Z · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:54 am Post subject:

Hehe, not worried about the cookie, kinda funny actually. Razz

Thanks for the info, I've solved about 8 of the JavaScript challanges and ofcourse the first logic "challange", althought I don't quite understand the rest of the logic challanges... and I don't really have any clue about most other challanges, cryptography, stegano, internet or anything... I'm more of a software, internet, web and networking isn't really my thing.

Thanks for the info and website - interesting, useful, time well spent.

atom0s · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject:

The majority of the challenges on the site are designed to be simple but cause people to over think the solutions which leads to not being able to solve them. If you get stuck just either rethink the whole question, reread it and such, or go back to it later. Don't stress over not solving one, overall they are fairly easy.

This is my current record, I haven't actually touched the site in a while though due to work:
http://www.hackquest.com/user.php?op=userinfo&uname=atom0s