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Zonalklism

Sun Jul 30 2006, 05:23PM

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I have a page where when a person loads it with his browser, they would automatically click on a link thats on the page then click on a link thats on the next page. Is that even possible in html? If so, any help would be appreciated.

dan

Sun Jul 30 2006, 06:04PM

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Could you explian your problem in a little more detial? I don't understand exaclty what your trying to do. I know it's possible to use a meta tag to redirect a user to another page. Then have a redirect on the second page that redirects to a third page. You can put in a delay of some seconds in between each redirect. Just google html/meta redirect or something along those lines.

Edit - Fresh from google:
<<META http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://secondpage.htm">

Just put that in between the head tags.. The 5 is the delay in seconds before the redirect..

Zonalklism

Sun Jul 30 2006, 08:03PM

Registered Member #213 Joined: Sun Feb 19 2006, 05:48PM
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Ok. there is a page that i can partially modify the html on. When someone loads it into their browser, it should be like they click on a link on that page, then when that page loads click a link on it. The catch is I can't use meta tags and I can't modify the code on the second page.

Simon

Mon Jul 31 2006, 12:23AM

Registered Member #32 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
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I'm afraid you're not being that clear. Can you give an example of what you mean?

wrote ...

it should be like they click on a link on that page

It should be "like"? How so?

What do you mean you can only partially edit the HTML? Context might be useful here.

Zonalklism

Mon Jul 31 2006, 03:26AM

Registered Member #213 Joined: Sun Feb 19 2006, 05:48PM
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Take this page for example, you can partially modify the html (by posting). What I need is when the visitor loads the page, it would be as if they clicked on a link on that page. Say when you load this page, they would be redirected to the Home link at the top of the page.
Then when their browser loads the second page click a button on it. However I can't modify the html on the second page.

Now that I gave a clearer explanation of what I'm trying to do(no It has nothing to do with 4hv.org), would the use of a cookie help with not being able to modify the second page's code?

Alex

Mon Jul 31 2006, 04:57AM

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It sounds like you're trying to (effectively) bring down a website. That really isn't a very friendly thing to do, however, I think it's a fairly futile effort so I'm not going to lock this thread.

Any CMS or forum worth its salt only parses certain (if any) HTML tags. a, img, b, u, i, center, br, p, etc... Formatting tags only. Even if it did allow other tags, you can't put a meta tag in the body.

Steve Conner

Mon Jul 31 2006, 10:06AM

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Yea, it looks like robotking is trying to exploit someone else's website or forum. :P I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume he's trying something fairly innocent: maybe to get round a file hosting service that doesn't let you link to the files directly, but makes you click through a page with ads on it first.

robotking: I think you'll find that web browsers don't allow you to do what you want, outside of redirection through meta tags. You'd probably have to infect the user's computer with some kind of malware that would take control of their browser and make it click on things, which is very non-innocent indeed. We don't want the name of 4hv.org to be associated with this kind of illegal hacking

tecNik

Tue Aug 01 2006, 11:48AM

Registered Member #77 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 10:24AM
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Looks like he is trying to make users of a sight automaticly vote or click on an advetrising link to generate revenue.

Naughty, Naughty.

ragnar

Tue Aug 01 2006, 12:57PM

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I've used PHP in smallish (200,000) datamining operations... file_get_contents can be used to load the contents of a page, then you can regexp and save stuff to your database as necessary. Of course this isn't the same as a 'real person' clicking the link(s)

but what're you doing, exactly? Automated voting?

Zonalklism

Tue Aug 01 2006, 03:47PM

Registered Member #213 Joined: Sun Feb 19 2006, 05:48PM
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Now that I actually look at it again, it's more complicated that placing a little html.

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