Welcome, cryptanalyst

Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst by huhtenberg on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:11PM (#8659734)

Doesn't work.

Upon completing the crossword the page auto-submits the solution and gets "403 Forbidden" in response. Something got broken somewhere or someone has pulled the plug.

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Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst by magnusg7 on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:17PM (#8659771)

Well, would be understandable if this is something that should be exclusive. Those who made their entry should be thankful then...

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Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst by magnusg7 on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:24PM (#8659812)

tried it out, still works. Try clearing cache and cookies and restart. Also use a mainstream browser

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Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst by huhtenberg on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:34PM (#8659847)

  <<
  POST / HTTP/1.1
  Host: ig-game.appspot.com
  ...

  >>
  HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
  Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=0.02
  Cache-Control: no-cache
  Content-Length: 0
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:32:12 GMT
  Server: Google Frontend
  Set-Cookie: session=(snip); Path=/; HttpOnly
  X-Firefox-Spdy: 3.1

Nope. Might be geo-locked or something.

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Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst by phaker on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:40PM (#8659877)

Look at the response body, the 403 i got had a nice html error message attached.

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Re:Welcome, cryptanalyst by huhtenberg on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:49PM (#8659931)

  Content-Length: 0

:-|

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