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Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:09 am

gsokrispy wrote:sorry I was stuck in a meerca chase challange, I've done it on the hunter several times and gotten 3 map pieces and the msg from the 1135 in the url is The ghost of King Coltzan flies through the room! I just thought it may be something only because the necklace is NOT in the inventory.


You won't find the necklace in your inventory. Just like the rocks. But you do "have" the necklace, as you can see.

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:09 am

danelkayam wrote:To make a php script that loops through all the spells and checks for the correct text which we don't know what it is...


Could you make a program that filters out pages with the text of the wrong spells in them, and shows pages that don't have it? I'm sorry if that was a little vague, but I think you know what I mean.

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:11 am

theonlysaneone wrote:
danelkayam wrote:To make a php script that loops through all the spells and checks for the correct text which we don't know what it is...


Could you make a program that filters out pages with the text of the wrong spells in them, and shows pages that don't have it? I'm sorry if that was a little vague, but I think you know what I mean.


Exactly. That's what I have done. Be sure to filter out "Page can not be displayed" and a blank response. I seem to get these a lot.

Scanning results: 1 - 26,382 ~ No results.

Source code: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... ht=#584370

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:12 am

with the book does it say you have found the right book. Like is it obvious

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:13 am

I'm still having trouble after paying for my rock...i still can't do anything after that and when I try to stick my rock in a gear i don't understand what u mean by pressing a button...theres no button to press that I can see...

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:14 am

spudge wrote:Scanning results: 1 - 26,382 ~ No results.

Source code: http://www.pinkpt.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... ht=#584370


Spudge, what are you looking for in terms of "results"? Just one spell is NOT going to do it, me thinks. I could be wrong, but even one by one through 50k automated would take less time than the Bell Curve masses.

I hope you can program Sequences? (Combinations to the power of combinations? Or do I have that mathematically and linguistically wrong?)

EDIT: Yes I most likely do, but I know what I "mean." lol :oops:

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:17 am

Rae wrote:I'm still having trouble after paying for my rock...i still can't do anything after that and when I try to stick my rock in a gear i don't understand what u mean by pressing a button...theres no button to press that I can see...


Star button that is to the right of the Yurble in the Hall of Heroes

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:18 am

anjuna wrote:Spudge, what are you looking for in terms of "results"? Just one spell is NOT going to do it, me thinks. I could be wrong, but even one by one through 50k automated would take less time than the Bell Curve masses.


I'm looking for anything other than the 20 canned responses. I'm letting it run despite any other theories right now because it's already been running for a few hours, and I'd like to finish and make SURE it's not just one spell first.

I can program it to do anything I want, sequences won't be a problem. Unfortunately I wasn't logging what responses go with which numbers, so I won't be able to use that kind of data without another run through all the spells.

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:20 am

with the book does it say you have found the right book. Like is it obvious

Yep, this is what the page will look like when you get it
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/scarletxsiren/Extra/spells.jpg

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:22 am

spudge wrote:I'm looking for anything other than the 20 canned responses. I'm letting it run despite any other theories right now because it's already been running for a few hours, and I'd like to finish and make SURE it's not just one spell first.

I can program it to do anything I want, sequences won't be a problem. Unfortunately I wasn't logging what responses go with which numbers, so I won't be able to use that kind of data without another run through all the spells.


PERFECT. I can sleep tonight hehe. I assume *for now* the finite 20 unless you come up with more. I tire early as Spring just starts here, so may fall asleep early, if you care to PM me "details" regarding the 20 (along the lines of what a layperson could do with URLs, let me know). :)

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:22 am

scarletsiren wrote:
with the book does it say you have found the right book. Like is it obvious

Yep, this is what the page will look like when you get it
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/scarletxsiren/Extra/spells.jpg


Umm... no one can see that.

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:24 am

krae3isatthetop wrote:Whats the easiest way to check all the books?


the easiest way i did it is to check on each bookshelf then on EACH row, carefully

dunno if someone already helped you with that, but i guess (hope) this will be helpful to others

i just like helping ^___________^ :P

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:24 am

http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/9196 ... ook1wz.png

That's the spellbook for those interested

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:25 am

I've tried various combinations of the Hunter and Protector coordinates to see if those led to the right spell. I've also looked around Altador for another clue, but I couldn't find anything obvious (not that I'd expect it to be obvious at this point). I've tried values from the shops, but I didn't notice anything new for sale (even when I reset my NP to the inflation rate). I'm of the opinion we need to find a new clue to activate the spell. But is it out yet? And if so, where is it?

I did notice that I couldn't put the amulet back on the pedestal guarded by the Minitheus. I don't blame the Janitor for being upset -- I want to see what happens when the gems are all lit up, too... :P It can't be any worse than flooding Altador (which I never personally got to experience).

Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:27 am

anjuna wrote:
spudge wrote:I'm looking for anything other than the 20 canned responses. I'm letting it run despite any other theories right now because it's already been running for a few hours, and I'd like to finish and make SURE it's not just one spell first.

I can program it to do anything I want, sequences won't be a problem. Unfortunately I wasn't logging what responses go with which numbers, so I won't be able to use that kind of data without another run through all the spells.


PERFECT. I can sleep tonight hehe. I assume *for now* the finite 20 unless you come up with more. I tire early as Spring just starts here, so may fall asleep early, if you care to PM me "details" regarding the 20 (along the lines of what a layperson could do with URLs, let me know). :)


Unfortunately there's nothing you can do with just the URL. There's two methods generally used for a web browser to fetch a page. The GET method and the POST method.

GET means all the data needed to fetch the document are in the address. Ex:

http://www.website.com/index.phtml?user=spudge

this tells the page you are user "spudge"

POST means that the data needed to fetch the document are encoded somewhere else in the request that humans can't mess with. In fact to even mess with them you need a program like Fiddler (by Microsoft).

I used fiddler to gather the data being sent to the server, and then used Visual Basic to make a program that used a Web Browser control to manipulate this data and increment the "spell_id" by 1 each time the site was accessed.
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