A simple node phantom app that sends a form to INSA where the idea of a captcha is grossly misunderstood --- sad & funny at the same time
Mind you this organization is responsible for cyber defense of the country
The image you see below is the background of the captcha. You can literally copy-paste the captcha text 😂😔
# cd to project folder
$ yarn # or `$ npm install`
$ node app.js # starts server on `localhost:8000`
# 💡 Using httpie (http://httpie.org) as HTTP client
$ http UNLOCK localhost:8000 # initiates a Phantom instance
$ http LOCK localhost:8000 # stops all instances and shows statsINSA site is powered by Liferay so it's assumed the site is protected with cookies, csrf, <insert another venerability here>, so using cheerio and superagent won't cut the 🧀 --- a project with a super-cool name enters, nightmarejs; so essentially my task is writing simple timer "function" (insa.js) and one CSS selector.
The whole thing took little over an hour (mostly spent on reading Nightmarejs's documentation)
After sending a couple of hundred requests, the site takes ~10 seconds to process a request ⏲