20-line python Valentine's day gift from TotalFinder

Re:20-line python Valentine's day gift from TotalFinder by woodrow on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:21PM (#2204306)

Is this legit? It doesn't look like it -- it just hammers (20 parallel connections) BinaryAge's ecommerce provider's site searching for all permutations of coupon codes.

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Re:20-line python Valentine's day gift from TotalFinder by zachc on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:44PM (#2204420)

The script makes 175760 permutations. For me the script takes around around 1.5 seconds to query the page each time. 175760 * 1.5 / 60 = 4394 minutes / 60 = 73.23 hours of constantly hitting the site. I'm not sure how the parallel connections it uses will impact the speed, but 3 days seems feasible. Not to say that this should ever be tried.

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Re:20-line python Valentine's day gift from TotalFinder by farzi on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:53PM (#2204457)

And yet it generated 200+ Valid License within 15 minutes. What about running it on EC2 instances ?

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Re:20-line python Valentine's day gift from TotalFinder by soneil on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:36PM (#2204400)

It appears that's exactly what it's doing. Legit, no. The weakest thing I've seen on HN, yes. Come on guys, really.

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