Just so I understand this: you want help to write a script so that you can "lock" a slot on a busy site for, possibly many, hours until you can personally get to it, meanwhile denying access to other people who may be trying to access the site too? Why don't you give us the URL so that we can all write robots and provide a complete denial of service attack on the site?

We could turn it into a competition to see who can write the robot most effective at blocking the site. Would you like to create the rules and post them here? Maybe we could judge it by earning one XP-- for each successful attack with the largest decrease in XP at the end of some specified time being the winner (or do I mean loser)?

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

In reply to Re: keep a user signed in by GrandFather
in thread keep a user signed in by Anonymous Monk

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