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Subject: FAO: Bungie Webguy (Tom Achronos?)
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I've whipped up a little php script which incrementally checks my RSS feeds for my screenshots. It's parsing everything fine, etc.

The only problem is saving the medium and high resolution images (im saving them directly onto the server). The RSS feed generates a halo3:medium_size_image URL of:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Screenshot.ashx?size=medium &ssid=2234231

But when I attempt to save the contents of that URL, I get an ASP error:
Technical Information: ASP.NET Application_Error; Exception thrown outside of normal Page, possible parse or compile error.


The img src of the medium sized image in the official Bungie popup viewer page type thing is:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Screenshot.ashx?size=medium &ssid=6235E5365B35723F8B400E92596F3A31

The only thing different with that URL is the 32 character SSID string. That one works fine and displays no errors at all.

The only way for me to find that 32 character SSID is to crawl through the source of the popup to obtain it. That's too much effort and will cause too many problems for me.

Is the URL of the SSID going to be changed in the RSS feed? (Also, I couldn't figure out what encryption or whatever that 32 character string is encoded in)

  • 10.02.2007 11:25 PM PDT
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The only part I can help with is the SSID string. The 32 characters are obviously in hexadecimal.
The only reason I can think of that the SSID would be a value as large as yours, would be if the strings were randomly generated. So they likely aren't encrypted at all.

  • 10.02.2007 11:38 PM PDT
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I forgot to mention in my OP, I already tried converting it from hex into denary. I googled for a converter, I used this one, but it reports the denary nubmer to be 10034035991509940000.

  • 10.02.2007 11:54 PM PDT
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I said the string was probably randomly generated. Converting it to various forms will achieve nothing.
Oh, by the way, a 16-value 32-character string will have 3.4 x 10^38 combinations.
That is a lot of pictorz.

  • 10.03.2007 12:07 AM PDT
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Well, I don't really care much for the mathematical side of things, all i'm really concerned about is why the RSS feed is saying one URL and the screenshot viewer popup is saying another.

  • 10.03.2007 12:12 AM PDT
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*shrugs* Javascript?

  • 10.03.2007 12:16 AM PDT