Re: Facebook bot

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 24 May 2007 10:52:21 -0400
Message-ID:
<O4i5i.10049$gk7.39662@wagner.videotron.net>
<mfasoccer@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1179959157.127848.325520@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

[...]

do
{
i++;
char x;
c = is.read();
x = (char)c;
if (c!=1)
output+= x;
} while (c!=1 && i < 5000);

[...]

Perhaps you mean to compare against -1 instead of 1?

[...]

String hashedpw = getMD5Hash("mypass");
String challenge = getChallenge();
String md5pw = getMD5Hash(hashedpw + challenge);


Since you didn't provide the getChallenge or getMD5Hash method, it's
difficult to help you. I asked you for an SSCCE, not a code snippet.

String nextt = URLEncoder.encode("http://facebook.com/home.php");
System.out.println("aok");
String post = "challenge=" + challenge + "&noerror=1&next=" + nextt
+ "&login=Login&email=" + email + "&pass=&md5pass=" + md5pw;

PrintWriter pout = new
          PrintWriter(new
OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream(),"8859_1"),true);


You cannot write to a URLConnection if doOutput=false - call
setDoOutput(true)

[...]

} catch(Exception e){}


When debugging a problem, don't silently swallow exceptions.

    - Oliver

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