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12/1/2006 11:07 PM
 
Shawn Duggan


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Joined: 8/19/2005
Posts: 303
Easy?  I think that would be hideous to create, if at all possible (due to possible non standard urls, such as a custom login page).  Screenscraping a web app does not sound like fun to me.  Basically a bunch of HttpRequests and HttpResponses, parsing strings....that would be awful.  Not a good time.  I'd rather watch figure skating with my wife. *shudder*

And again, because many people unfortunately do not change the default passwords for the admin and host accounts, just like they do not generate their own keys for the machinekey settings, it's a tool that could be used for malicious purposes.  In this case, its even easier to be used for mischief.

What is it you are trying to achieve with this that cannot be accomplished with many user import/export tools available?  There are plenty of user import/export modules out there.  I use one I bought for $20.
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12/1/2006 11:23 PM
 
Kevin Goff


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I would look into WATIR. It uses ruby to automate web pages and can probably do what you are wanting to with some ease . You can call it from the command line too. There are even some apps that will record actions (like creating a user) and then you can call that script over and over. I'm betting you could have something working in an hour or so.

I use it to login to DNN when I'm debugging. Saves a bunch of steps!

Resources:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingWatirMakerRecordingForRubybasedWatir.aspx
http://www.openqa.org/watir-recorder/
 
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12/1/2006 11:23 PM
 
Shawn Duggan


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timtimtimtimtim wrote
To make this easier, we can assume this program would be using a DNN database that is NOT USING encrypted passwords.

Tanks!



Maybe I should have noticed this earlier.  I wasn't basing my previous responses on this.  I was thinking encrypted passwords.  Sorry.
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12/2/2006 1:12 AM
 
timtimtimtimtim timtimtimtimtim

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Hello,

I'm not sure what you mean by screenscraping.  That isn't required at all.  All you need to do is figure out what is passed over HTTP.  I know it isn't difficult because I've done something very simple before with C#.  Yes, you'd have to figure out what HTTP POST/GET strings were required, but I don't think that would be difficult.

But lets say you skip that...

My initial goal was to get this done with passwords not being encrypted.  With that said, would this be something that would be a lot simplier to handle?  Couldn't some of the DNN DB Sprocs like AddUser be reused in some fashion?

Thanks :)
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12/2/2006 9:39 AM
 
John Mitchell


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If you look at the page from my blog post earlier in this thread, all you would need to do is pass it the variables required to create a new user , you could pass them on the querystring or with a post.

The page is removing any authentication that may be required to actually create the user (like logging in as admin), so you would not want it to be reached by the general public.

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