I’ve been playing around with the following bit of code “ Logging in Cloaked” courtesy of vroom for no there reason than idle curiosity.

http://perlmonks.org?op=login&user=LoginName&passwd=password&ticker=yes
Copy & Paste into browser substituting LoginName and Password with your personal details should log the User in “Cloaked”.

However

  • It only works on my Windows set up if I am already logged in.
  • The first use of the script logs the user in "Decloaked".
  • The second use of the script logs the user in "Cloaked".
  • Clicking the button to “Decloak” in the Chatter Box does not make one visible to "Other Users" on Windows.
  • Changing the script to
    http://perlmonks.org?op=login&user=LoginName&passwd=password&ticker=no
    and hitting return twice gives the desired effect of decloaking.


    • I’m wondering if the cookie is persistent and needs to be deleted?
    Can anyone explain this need to run the script twice.

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    Re: Cloaked or Decloaked
    by ysth (Canon) on Feb 17, 2008 at 18:29 UTC
      The "Decloak" label on what's normally the "Talk" button is just to let you know that you will be recorded as present if you Talk. Pressing the button without entering a public message does nothing.

      In your handcrafted url, you are not including the "expires" parameter; that may explain some of the inconsistency you are seeing. Try just going to the Login node with a ticker=yes parameter and using the form to set your cookie appropriately: ?node=Login;ticker=yes

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        "The "Decloak" label on what's normally the "Talk" button is just to let you know that you will be recorded as present if you Talk."

        So what you are saying is that the "Decloak" button does not do what I thought it did.

        Which was to Log the User in Decloaked when depressed ie changing the status from Cloaked to Decloaked.

        It serves no other purpose than to submit the contents of the CB to the CB stream.
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