Damn, I'm made of fail.  :-(

rc_pinchey:

 Damn, I'm made of fail.  :-(

Also: AIDS.

Also: Your avatar looks like a raccoon. 

plz send codes

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bielawski:

plz send codes

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I suck at this.

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Indeed, you weren't able to follow simple instructions - you have to rearrange the HTML you get for a single post so that you end your post BEFORE you begin the fake one.

Also, Community Server discards the "border", "width", and "height" properties from the TABLE tag, so you'll need to readd them as CSS properties in the "style" attribute.

I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

Mike check 1, 2, 1, 2...

The failures are starting to remind me of other forums where people use huge images as their signatures.  The trouble is that the entire post box is filled with so many images that it's tough (sometimes) to find the actual post.

Yes, I am a Bengals fan.  Yes, I know this year is going to suck for us.

I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

belgariontheking:

Yes, I am a Bengals fan.

And you admitted this in public? Wow! 

I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

KenW:

belgariontheking:

Yes, I am a Bengals fan.

 

And you admitted this in public? Wow! 

Quietust:

Interesting - not only can such HTML be embedded within posts, but it is also possible to place it inside signatures, thus allowing me to create a TRUE Signature Guy which follows me everywhere and automatically agrees with all of my posts.

Challenge #1 --

    Difficulty: Have the username randomzied from regular forum posters, pulling in their post counts and emulating their current signatures.

Challenge #2 --

    Difficulty: Write a version for MasterPlanSoftware to add to his sig that flames him at random from a randomly-generated username with a post count in the single digits.  This will save the retarded and mentally unstable communities hundreds of man-hours a week, valuable time that can be applied to screaming at cars and collecting pocket lint.

Quietust:

Indeed, you weren't able to follow simple instructions - you have to rearrange the HTML you get for a single post so that you end your post BEFORE you begin the fake one.

Right, so what am I doing wrong here...?

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rc_pinchey:

Right, so what am I doing wrong here...?

Oh, and feel free to mock me, I'm well aware that I really should have figured this one out by now. HTML ain't my bag, baby... 

I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

rc_pinchey:

Oh, and feel free to mock me, I'm well aware that I really should have figured this one out by now. HTML ain't my bag, baby... 

morbiuswilters:

Challenge #2 --

    Difficulty: Write a version for MasterPlanSoftware to add to his sig that flames him at random from a randomly-generated username with a post count in the single digits.  This will save the retarded and mentally unstable communities hundreds of man-hours a week, valuable time that can be applied to screaming at cars and collecting pocket lint.

Bastard.

Signature Guy would like to hug you all... but unfortunately he can't, as he has no arms. This makes Signature Guy sad, which ironically means that he now needs a hug.

morbiuswilters:

Challenge #1 --

    Difficulty: Have the username randomzied from regular forum posters, pulling in their post counts and emulating their current signatures.

I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

Quietust:

Unfortunately, this does not appear to be possible - the only way I could make it dynamic would be to embed Javascript or use an <object> tag to load it dynamically from another location

AbbydonKrafts:

Minor change

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// TheDailyWTF.com : Generates a random "TagException" tag for new forum posts
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function rand_addr()
{
    var a = "";

    for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++)
    {
        a += Math.floor(Math.random() * 16).toString(16);
    }
    return a;
}

function rand_module()
{
    var mod_names = new Array('EXPLORER.EXE', 'MFC40.DLL', 'MFC70.DLL', 'MSHTML.DLL', 
        'MSVBVM50.DLL', 'MSVBVM60.DLL', 'MSVCP50.DLL', 'MSVCP60.DLL', 'MSVCP70.DLL', 
        'SYSTEM32.DLL', 'USER32.DLL', 'VB40032.DLL');
    
    var max_val = mod_names.length;
    var rand_idx = Math.floor(Math.random() * max_val);
    return mod_names[rand_idx];
    
}

function generateTags()
{
    var elm = document.getElementById("ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_PostForm_ctl04_TagsSubForm_ctl00_Tags");

    if (elm)
    {
        if (elm.value.length == 0)
        {
            var tagex = "TagException at 0x" + rand_addr();
            tagex += " in " + rand_module();
            elm.value = "throw new TagException(), " + tagex;
        }
    }
}

function countTagExceptions()
{
    var all_tags = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
    var tagex_count = 0;
    var tagex_bytes = 0;
    var curr_idx = 0;
    var end_idx = 0;

    for (var i = 0; i < all_tags.length; i++)
    {
        if (all_tags[i].id.indexOf("AllTags") != -1)
        {
            all_tags = all_tags[i].value;
            
            // Count the older TagExceptions
            while (curr_idx != -1)
            {
                curr_idx = all_tags.indexOf("TagException+in+0x", curr_idx);

                if (curr_idx != -1)
                {
                    end_idx = all_tags.indexOf("&", curr_idx);
                    tagex_count++;
                    tagex_bytes += (end_idx - curr_idx);
                    curr_idx++;
                }
            }
            
            // Count the newer TagExceptions that include a module name
            curr_idx = 0;
            while (curr_idx != -1)
            {
                curr_idx = all_tags.indexOf("TagException+at+0x", curr_idx);

                if (curr_idx != -1)
                {
                    end_idx = all_tags.indexOf("&", curr_idx);
                    tagex_count++;
                    tagex_bytes += (end_idx - curr_idx);
                    curr_idx++;
                }
            }

            var report_elm = document.createElement("div");
            document.body.appendChild(report_elm);
            report_elm.innerHTML = "TagExceptions: " + tagex_count + 
                ", Bytes: " + tagex_bytes + 
                ", All Tags Bytes: " + all_tags.length;
            report_elm.style.position = "absolute";
            report_elm.style.top = "127px";
            report_elm.style.left = "300px";
            // report_elm.style.background = "#ECECEC";
            // report_elm.style.border = "1px solid #000000";
            report_elm.style.padding = "6px";
            report_elm.style.fontWeight = "bold";
            break;
        }
    }
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Don't you think this is getting a little out of hand?

morbiuswilters:

 

    Difficulty: Write a version for MasterPlanSoftware to add to his sig that flames him at random from a randomly-generated username with a post count in the single digits.  This will save the retarded and mentally unstable communities hundreds of man-hours a week, valuable time that can be applied to screaming at cars and collecting pocket lint.

bstorer:

Have GreaseMonkey fill it out for you.

I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

I'm starting to think Community Server was chosen deliberately so that tearing it to pieces would provide an extra layer of forum entertainment. 

jjeff1:

I was showing a friend the shore excursions for a cruise I'm taking. I cut and pasted a URL to a particular event, it looks like this:

http://www.carnival.com/ShoreExcursionDetails.aspx?portcode=NAS&excursionname=Ardastra+Gardens+%26+City+Tour&excursioncode=424001&price=46.00

Check out the last variable in the URL. Yes, it really works. Go ahead and change the tour price to $2 or $84234 or whatever you'd like.

Now, I think I understand why they did this. You only see the page with the numeric price if you're booked on a cruise and signed in to the site. You can "buy now", which shows the correct price, no matter how you've messed with that URL. If you're just browsing their site, not booked, then the pages just display a number of $ marks, depending on how costly the excursion is. I'd guess this lets them use the same code for the booked passengers as for people just browsing the site.

 Too bad, I was really looking forward to playing 18 holes for $4.

rc_pinchey:

I'm starting to think Community Server was chosen deliberately so that tearing it to pieces would provide an extra layer of forum entertainment.

AbbydonKrafts:

How odd. The thread was locked after you posted this, but now it's not. O_o

Shhh.. perhaps Community Server is achieving sentience.. 

Further attempts to reverse-engineer CS have resulted in my discovery that any time the tags are edited using the "Edit Tags" link the hidden form field with ALL tags in it is posted back to the server.  This means that at present editing your tags requires you to upload 200k to the server.

morbiuswilters:

any time the tags are edited using the "Edit Tags" link the hidden form field with ALL tags in it is posted back to the server.

AbbydonKrafts:

I wondered why it took so friggin' long to do it that way.

Yeah, I never would have guessed.

 Hmm..

morbiuswilters:

 Hmm..

bstorer:

morbiuswilters:

 Hmm..

Got it working, did you?  Is it slow as hell?

Very close.  It should end up being quite a bit faster than the real edit tags feature because it doesn't post all 160k of tags in the AJAX call. 

Test. 

morbiuswilters:

Test. 

bstorer:

morbiuswilters:

Test. 

Fail.

Wrong!  All that's left is getting the existing tags and replacing __LINE__ 

morbiuswilters:

bstorer:

morbiuswilters:

Test. 

Fail.

Wrong!  All that's left is getting the existing tags and replacing __LINE__ 

bstorer:

Out of curiosity, how are you detecting that you've posted?

Loop through all anchors on the page, if any contain the text "[Edit Tags]", grab them and check them to see if __LINE__ appears in the text.  The problem is that tags don't seem to be stored in any sane format..  I think I'm going to have to parse the actual HTML itself..  bah.

Another try... 

 Last try for today!

 YES!  Messy as heck, but here's the basics: 

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
        
for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
    if (anchors[i].innerHTML.indexOf("[Edit Tags]") != -1) {
        update_tags_with_post_number(anchors[i]);
    }
}

function update_tags_with_post_number(elm)
{
    
    if (elm.parentNode.innerHTML.indexOf("__LINE__") != -1) {
        var post_url = document.location.href;
        var frag_pos = post_url.indexOf("#");

        if (frag_pos > -1) {
            post_url = post_url.substring(0, frag_pos);
        }

        var post_id = post_url.substring((post_url.lastIndexOf("/") + 1), (post_url.length - 5));

        var tags = "";

        var tags_cont = elm.parentNode.firstChild;

        for (var i = 0; i < tags_cont.childNodes.length; i++) {
            if (tags_cont.childNodes[i].childNodes.length) {
                tags += tags_cont.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].data + "; ";

                if (tags_cont.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].data.indexOf("__LINE__") != -1) {
                    tags_cont.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].data = tags_cont.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].data.replace("__LINE__", post_id);
                }
            }
        }

        tags = tags.replace("__LINE__", post_id);

        var vstate = document.getElementById("__VIEWSTATE").value;
        var cb_param = "saveAndFormat:" + post_id + ":" + tags;
        var cb_id = "ctl00$ctl00$bcr$bcr$ctl00$PostList$ctl03$ctl23$ctl00";

        var post_data = "__EVENTTARGET=&__EVENTARGUMENT=&__VIEWSTATE=" + encodeURI(vstate) + "&__CALLBACKID=" + encodeURI(cb_id) + "&__CALLBACKPARAM=" + encodeURI(cb_param);

        GM_xmlhttpRequest({
            method: "POST",
            url:    post_url,
            headers: {
                "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
            },
            data:   post_data
        });

    }

}

morbiuswilters:

bstorer:

Out of curiosity, how are you detecting that you've posted?

Loop through all anchors on the page, if any contain the text "[Edit Tags]", grab them and check them to see if __LINE__ appears in the text.  The problem is that tags don't seem to be stored in any sane format..  I think I'm going to have to parse the actual HTML itself..  bah.

So out of curiousity, what happens if I were to, say, do this:

__LINE__, bstorer is awesome!, [Edit Tags]

bstorer:

So out of curiousity, what happens if I were to, say, do this:

__LINE__, bstorer is awesome!, [Edit Tags]

Hmm..  Not sure.  It does't throw any errors but it might be sending invalid AJAX requests.. 

morbiuswilters:

 

Hmm..  Not sure.  It does't throw any errors but it might be sending invalid AJAX requests.. 

morbiuswilters:

The problem is that tags don't seem to be stored in any sane format..  I think I'm going to have to parse the actual HTML itself..  bah.