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Apr 7th, 2006, 4:57 PM
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Brute force way to check URL?
Hello everyone,
Im new here because I'm looking for help. First off Im not sure if this is the best place to post this so could a mod move it if not? Im trying to find an image on a website but the URL to the image has a (seemingly) random string of characters in it. It's like: blahblahblah.com/blah/blah/blah/mr223_(16x lowercase letter or number 0-9).jpg I was wondering if there was a way to write a simple program to go through and check a URL and see if there was anything there to brute force throught this. I realize brute force will take a while but I dont really have any other options. -Alex |
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Apr 7th, 2006, 5:08 PM
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In other words flooding a server.
Of course there's a way to find the picture. E-mail the admin and ask him for the link by describing the picture.
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Apr 7th, 2006, 5:13 PM
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lol that would most likely work
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Apr 7th, 2006, 5:36 PM
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yeah, as a sys admin, if i saw that somebody was systematically going through each part of a site, i would most likely be pissed. Infact, depending on the size of the site and the size of the content that you'd be downloading, there's a chance that you'd cause the site to act like it was being DOS'ed.
We all know how much Sys admins like being DOS'ed.
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Apr 7th, 2006, 6:11 PM
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Even if you did find the correct url, you would have to find a way to make your program stop once it finds the specific picture, and since you don't know the url, you can't specify when to stop like that. You would have to open a new browser for every single url tested and then go through all the browsers individually.
Just ask admin.
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