Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net> writes:
At 1:52 PM -0500 1/25/98, Matthew Ghio wrote:
Cookies and the NYTIMES subscription: NYTIMES.COM tries to store your userid and password in the cookie with keywords PW= and ID=. Problem is, it tries to encode them using 8-bit characters. Lucky for us, at this time NYTIMES.COM does not check if userid/password are valid, just that they're a part of the cookie!! So, just add these two lines to your junkbuster config:
wafer PW=0 wafer ID=0
and nytimes.com will greet you as "0" and let you right in.
It doesn't check the PW or ID at all except the first time you log in. After that it generates a new cookie titled NPLCNYT and that is the only cookie it checks; the PW and ID are not required to be there at all. If you delete the NPLCNYT cookie, it will check the PW/ID and generate a new one. An example cookie is below:
NPLCNYT=AAAALw>AAAAAX9IUUWiPhfALqHZuSh2mUM0yzNOwGRReAAAAAsAAAAAY3lwaGVycHVua
Anyone have something similar for the WSJ?
www.wsj.com is a pay site ($49 | $29 / annum). Someone (not me) might want to post the details of their subscription so everyone else could use it; I suspect that the folks running wsj.com might object. I messed around some more with various sites that use cookies. 1. .CNN.com wants to set the following 4 cookies for "cypherpunks cypherpunks": PNAA=:Ypgxlx L. Egdfbd'sZAQF0: (i.e. Random Q. Hacker) PNAB=:01884: PNAC=:CVGTEOZRSBY: CNN_CUSTOM=1 path=/customnews Problem is, the last one needs the path and there'e no way to fake path in junkbusters wafer. I simply put cnn.com in the cookie file momentarily, logged in to let it set the cookie, then changed it to ">cnn.com" to filter out any updates to these 4 cookies. 2. www.economist.com has a freebie "cypherpunks cypherpunks" account. The cookie is: wafer econ-key=4GgOaV1a Perhaps someone cares to set up a paid account for group use. 3. foxnews.com doesn't allow "cypherpunks" (too long); "cypherpunk" is already taken, and I couldn't guess the password. Would the entity responsible please set the password to what we all expect it to be. :-) 4. avweb.com (aviation site) cypherpunks cypherpunks wafer AVweb_Auth=Y3lwaGVycHVua3M6Y3lwaGVycHVua3M= 5. .reba.com (country music) cypherpunks cypherpunks wafer RebaNet%5FPWD=cypherpunks wafer RebaNet%5FUID=cypherpunks 6. http://www.netstrike.com:8080/ cypherpunks cypherpunks wafer WB-User=cypherpunks wafer WB-Pass=cypherpunks 7. .citywire.com aka .nyrealty.com - manhattan real estate Random Q. Hacker cypherpunks@algebra.com cypherpunks wafer primary_nyrealtyid=Ra34cbf1b0a7d1c wafer nyrealtyid=Ra34cbf1b0a7d1c 8. .netscape.com, .mcom.com wafer NETSCAPE_ID=10010408,121ee744 wafer NSCP-US-DOWNLOAD=pkjbcTTL5OYAAAAAYRr3d8towI7Tj4v3nJwgig== (Should somebody set up a cypherpunks microsoft login for downloading all the patches and bug fixes they put out?) Given the number of these things, it seems that sending them out with every nntp request as a wafer wastes too much bandwidth. Can someone recommend a good program for editing the cookie file? I'm too lasy to write it myself. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps