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Re: Automate connection to Sonic firewall web administration page

From: Ralph Mitchell <rmitchell_at_eds.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 05:51:41 -0500

Reuben Pearse wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have just realised that logon webpage used to logon into the Sonic
> firewall uses a Java applet to hash the password entered on the HTML
> form before it submits the page. Is there any way to get round this
> using cURL?

You'll be using some kind of script to do this, right? And the Sonic
provides the Java applet, right? You should be able to download the
applet and save it, then run it with whatever java runtime you have
handy. You probably only need to do that once for any given firewall
password, unless it's trivial to exec the applet from the script.

I've never done that, by the way - never needed to, thank goodness - but
I have had some success with javascript.

BTW, if the applet is plain text (is it? Dunno Java, myself... :) you
can probably rewrite it into C or something else you're familiar with.

Ralph Mitchell

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Received on 2003-04-23