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Cool project, I keep getting booted but seems like it would be a fun little toy for a secret dev community or an interesting way to converse with your more tech

by kxrm 6y ago

Cool project, I keep getting booted but seems like it would be a fun little toy for a secret dev community or an interesting way to converse with your more tech oriented users who would like to report bugs. Would love IRC like capabilities as well.

Jugurtha 6y ago
A friend introduced me to Grepolis. I started playing and liked the game but I did not want to spend my time playing the game, so I wanted to write some code to play on my behalf and I would get human satisfaction from my code playing the game by proxy. I started looking into the requests/responses, and I found something cool in the HTTP response headers that was something along the lines of "If you are reading this, please consider applying to work at our company". One other instance of this is a company here that posted an opening for software developers. The page was blank, so naturally I opened the console to see what's wrong. There were comments in the page that said "Congratulations, you passed the first step. To get the link of the page, please decode this message in Morse and send us the code you used to do that". I didn't write any code because I was familiar with Morse code, so I got the link directly. I was contacted by their CTO shortly after. I had already been hired in the meantime (by another CTO at another company and they knew each other apparently). I told him I found it pretty cool and interesting. He said that very few people found the link and applied. These things can be fun.
- alufers 6y ago
  This reminds me of the time when I wrote a web crawler which saved all unique HTTP headers along with their values. Turns out that those `X-We-Are-Hiring` headers are not so uncommon. I also found a misspelled content security header on some poor Brazilian Bank's website.

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Cool project, I keep getting booted but seems like it would be a fun little toy for a secret dev community or an interesting way to converse with your more tech

by kxrm 6y ago

Jugurtha 6y ago
A friend introduced me to Grepolis. I started playing and liked the game but I did not want to spend my time playing the game, so I wanted to write some code to play on my behalf and I would get human satisfaction from my code playing the game by proxy. I started looking into the requests/responses, and I found something cool in the HTTP response headers that was something along the lines of "If you are reading this, please consider applying to work at our company". One other instance of this is a company here that posted an opening for software developers. The page was blank, so naturally I opened the console to see what's wrong. There were comments in the page that said "Congratulations, you passed the first step. To get the link of the page, please decode this message in Morse and send us the code you used to do that". I didn't write any code because I was familiar with Morse code, so I got the link directly. I was contacted by their CTO shortly after. I had already been hired in the meantime (by another CTO at another company and they knew each other apparently). I told him I found it pretty cool and interesting. He said that very few people found the link and applied. These things can be fun.
- alufers 6y ago
  This reminds me of the time when I wrote a web crawler which saved all unique HTTP headers along with their values. Turns out that those `X-We-Are-Hiring` headers are not so uncommon. I also found a misspelled content security header on some poor Brazilian Bank's website.