Auto refresh screen capture tool......

[bowlingo]

Hi all,

Does anyone who knows about such things think the following will work....

A tool you can load proxies into maybe.....

It auto refreshes in milliseconds until it gets a hit from a keyword i.e "qty" then stops?

Any ideas?

Edited October 6, 2013 by bowlingo

[the_hutch_keeper]

We used a program last year called 'follow that page'. No help on ticket day but can come in handy for future resales as it tracks what ever web page you want it to follow & using email or text informs you when ever your chosen web page changes

[bowlingo]

This could be one hell of a tool for all tickets if it were to work.......ticketmaster holds you in a queue from memory but i think with seetickets the page just appears?

[bowlingo]

If anything it would at least get over the need to keep refreshing like a nutter

[musky]

This may not pan out as expected...

From TOS:

Glastonbury Festival will cancel all bookings made using multi-hit software or applications to ensure everyone has a fair and equal chance of getting a ticket.

[artl]

...similar to what used to happen on ebay when you got skanked at the last millisecond and out bid by 3p on an item ?

Very easy to defeat from a webserver/network perspective - if there is an excessive amount of hits from a single IP - just drop that IP addie [by excessive = quicker than is humanly possible for a human to hit ctrl +f5]

Even easier place all the words in the booking page into the front page as meta tags. Then you is stuck there

[artl]

or as per TOS quote - log that IP and cancel tickets bought against that IP. Again easily detected by viewing logs.

[bowlingo]

Ya I can dig what your saying about the terms of service etc...however what are they going to see at there end on the logs?..if it was refreshing every 1000ms (1 second) then they "might" be able to check there logs and see the exact timed attempts...if it refreshed randomly i.e between 100 and 1000ms they wont see a pattern...thats if they even check. Im sure theres way round it all providing I can talk to the right person......

Edited October 6, 2013 by bowlingo

[markeee]

will that page tracker be any use for resales

[Cooter]

What we used last year was a page change notifier thingy, as soon as the page changed it auto emailed/texted and we knew within milliseconds there was a brief resale happening, worked a treat.

[musky]

will that page tracker be any use for resales

[artl]

Ya I can dig what your saying about the terms of service etc...however what are they going to see at there end on the logs?..if it was refreshing every 1000ms (1 second) then they "might" be able to check there logs and see the exact timed attempts...if it refreshed randomly i.e between 100 and 1000ms they wont see a pattern...thats if they even check. Im sure theres way round it all providing I can talk to the right person......

[bowlingo]

After some digging ...they use a juniper security box that detects delinquent behaviour and drops the source IP. If you randomise the auto-refresh to that extent, you are defeating the object and may as well do it manually. :-(

Edited October 6, 2013 by bowlingo

[artl]

yeah - understand the concept - and first thought what a good idea ... one problem is that you have to get to the reg page to know what the key words are then set them in ... it seems every year there is a different format for the pay page. Unless you have a person on the inside ? next year i shall inspect the landing page for meta tags ... then 2014 to Oct 2015 I shall develop a prog .... um maybe I will just hit F5 :-)

Nice thought though

[bowlingo]

Thanks for your replies artl.....

It wouldnt need to look for meta tags as it would be scanning the page source for the keywords...i.e view the page source of this thread by right clicking then hitting view source (dependant on your browser) then do a search for "milliseconds"

It would work the same way crack tools scan the page sources for specific keywords in order to get a hit or a fail...

i.e im asuming the page today that people used to enter there reg nos then pay would of had something like "ENTER REGISTRATION NO" that would of been the hit

The failure would of been the holding page that was counting down so you would possibly enter the failure key from that page (a series of text)....

Edited October 6, 2013 by bowlingo

[matt_berr]

I have a tool that does this, paid someone to build it with coffee.

Was pretty useless as only works when a page is returned and fir long periods I didn't get a connection and so no page was returned, so I hit f5 in many tabs on many browsers until I got through to the holding page

Once I was there hammered f5 again and got tickets

Ps , the many tabs is fine just close the ones you don't need down when you buy tickets

PPS. No I'm not passing the tool on, it shit and is really hard to setup

[artl]

Matt_Berr - they built the tool with coffee ? - is there no end to that beverages uses !!! :-)

[bowlingo]

Ive got someone working on this......

Does anyone know if on ticket day when we were refreshing

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/content/gfl-holding

This would only give 3 results....a blank page, the holding page that had a count down on it or the actual ticket page.....

Was there something else you needed to click inbetween before you got to the actual enter registration no page?

Is this how it is every year also?

Also which keywords could you see written on the page? I am asuming "enter registration no" ? Or something similar that was unique to the ticket buy page?

Edited October 7, 2013 by bowlingo

[clarkete]

Also "Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to glastonbury.seetickets.com"

And it's very hard to cater for what will happen year to year, as there were some changes this year from last, so don't pay your developer too much just yet

[musky]

I took some screenshots of the page from the Coach and Ticket sale on the 3rd. "Please enter your registration details below" appeared on that and on the page to pay the balance last April.

Still think this is as likely to backfire as to work though.

[clarkete]

I took some screenshots of the page from the Coach and Ticket sale on the 3rd. "Please enter your registration details below" appeared on that and on the page to pay the balance last April.

Still think this is as likely to backfire as to work though.