NYCPHP Meetup

[David Mintz]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Joel De Gan wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:49, David Mintz wrote:
> > > I just finished a project for bypassing one of our partners captchas so
> > > we could automate using curl to snag some pages we needed..  So you say
> > > "captcha?" and you got that... :)
> >
> > Maybe they oughta save you the trouble by exposing the data you need as a
> > web service, or something sexy like that?
> >
>
> That would have been nice, but they declined to offer us that or to
> provide it due to some policy about that particular data. So in response
> we just automated going through their captcha. :)


HA! Kind of proves the point that they might as well change their
policy...  but then where'd the fun and the challenge be for you?

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