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Old 05-24-2012
Shell Scripting Question

Hi guys,

I am wanting to create a script that will logon to HackThisSite.org and complete Programming Mission 11. You can find a link to this mission here for your reference:

www [DOT] hackthissite [DOT] org/missions/prog/11/

The following is what I have so far:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
USER="myUsername"
PASS="myPassword"
if [ -z "$PASS" ]; then echo "You need to set your username and password in the script."; exit 1; fi
wget -q -O .login.html http://www.hackthissite.org/user/login --post-data="username=$USER&password=$PASS&btn_submit=Login" --save-cookies=.cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --referer http://www.hackthissite.org/
grep "Image Validation" .login.html >/dev/null && echo "Error: You need to log out/in in a web browser" && exit 1
wget -q -O -  http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11/  --load-cookies=.cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --referer http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/programming/ > out.txt

TEXT=`cat out.txt | grep "Generated String:" | cut -f 2 -d : | cut -f 1 -d "<" | tr -d [:blank:]`
SHIFT=`cat out.txt | grep "Generated String:" | cut -f 3 -d : | cut -f 1 -d "<" | tr -d [:blank:]`

echo "If this doesn't work, you'll need to add this separator:"
echo $TEXT

for EACH in `echo $TEXT | tr "," "\n" | tr ")" "\n" | tr "#" "\n"| tr "'" "\n"| tr "." "\n"| tr "&" "\n"| tr "(" "\n"| tr "!" "\n"| tr "%" "\n"| tr "$" "\n"| tr "+" "\n"| tr "-" "\n"| tr "/" "\n"| tr "*" "\n"| tr "@" "\n"| tr "^" "\n"| tr "\"" "\n"`
do
let EACH=$EACH-$SHIFT
STRING="$STRING$(printf "\\$(printf "%03o" $EACH)")"
done
echo The string is $STRING
wget -q -O -  http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11/index.php --post-data="solution=$STRING"  --load-cookies=.cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --referer http://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/11/ > out2.txt
grep "answer is wrong" out2.txt | html2text
grep -i successfully out2.txt | html2text
grep -i "already completed" out2.txt | html2text

rm .login.html; rm .cookies.txt; rm out.txt; rm out2.txt

When I run this .sh on my Ubuntu desktop it dosnt seem to do anything... any ideas? Maybe someone can run it and help me out? That would be great if you could!
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