bots

Bosh Error Message in Debian server

HI, I have a debian server. I am using xmpphp library for bot development. When i create a bot using xmpp file its working fine but when i try to use bosh it generates a fatal error. Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /var/www/testlib/XMPPHP/BOSH.php:75 Stack trace: 0 /var/ww...

Detecting well behaved / well known bots

I found this question very interesting : Programmatic Bot Detection I have a very similar question, but I'm not bothered about 'badly behaved bots'. I am tracking (in addition to google analytics) the following per visit : Entry URL Referer UserAgent Adwords (by means of query string) Whether or not the user made a purchase etc. The...

twitter status message update through bot using php and twitter oauth

Hi, I have followed the steps defined in the following link for twitter oauth implementation. https://docs.google.com/View?docID=dcf2dzzs_2339fzbfsf4 Its working fine when i run through web browser but i want a user should be able to update status of twitter account through gmail chat i.e. he should only be authenticated once through ...

Milw0rm/Packetstorm News Bot

Hey guys. I am making a security forum, so I would like to know if there is some forum bot that will get the newest posts from milw0rm and packetstorm and will post them in the forum ? One friend of mine told me that there is such thing, but after some google searches i was not able to find it. Can you help me ? Thanks in advance. ...

Where can I operate a PokerBot (and other games) legitimately?

Hi everyone. I'd like to build a PokerBot (and a few other games) for the intellectual challenge. However, I only want to do this in an ethical and legal way. So, I need a game server where all players and the game operator know that I'm running a pokerbot. Where that's not cheating but the norm. Perhaps even where being a human is agai...

How can a program control another program?

Yesterday while playing videos games I started to think about player made bots that would play for people and I wondered to myself how they work? Do they tell the video game that a key was pressed or mouse was clicked? If not is there a way to have your program tell another program a key was pressed? I know this is a rather dangerous top...

Python Web-based Bot

I am trying to write a Python-based Web Bot that can read and interpret an HTML page, then execute an onClick function and receive the resulting new HTML page. I can already read the HTML page and I can determine the functions to be called by the onClick command, but I have no idea how to execute those functions or how to receive the res...

How can I teach a computer system how to play poker?

At first I have 5 cards by random, of course. Only one time I can change and also l have already taught [the program] the poker rules in my system. My problem is how can I choose "I don't need this card or there are cards?". I can change by myself but computer doesn't know. I think maybe it is difficult but have you guys any help to offe...

What is the python's "urllib2" equivalent in dot net?

I am new in python. I wanna build a bot in c#. Can i use this "urllib2" in dot net or is there any alternative in dot net? please help... ...

C++ AI Design Question

Hi, I am currently writing a bot for a MMORPG. Though, currently I am stuck at trying to figure out how to nicely implement this. The design problem is related to casting the character spells in the correct order. Here is a simple example to what I need to archieve. It's not related to casting them, but doing it in the correct order. I ...

php script that runs on the server without a client request

I am working on a site that require a php script running on a server without any request, it is a bot script that keeps (not full time but at least once a day) checking client accounts and send alert messages to clients when something happens. any ideas are appreciated. ...

How to determine if a user accessing your website is not a bot?

I know that user agents are one indicator, but that's easy to spoof. What other reliable indicators are there that a visitor is really a bot? Inconsistent headers? Whether images/javascript are requested? Thanks! ...

Pubsub implementation with jaxl library

Hi, I am using jaxl library for bot development on my debian server with openfire. Now i want to apply pubsub functionality to it. My scenario is : user subscribes to an event & when an event occurs message is sent to all the subscribers. I am confused how to implement pubsub through im. Please help Thanks ...

Access a website by a bot but only after setting a variable by a browser/human

We are working on a website of a brewery using Drupal. As minors under 18 are not allowed to view the website, any page accessed is passed through a module (legalage) and if the user clicks "continue" so as to confirm his/her age being more than 18 the site is shown to the user saving the legal age as true. The problem is when search e...

bots and 301 redirect

I have changed the structure of the URLs of my site more than 6 months ago. I detect the use of legacy URLs and redirect to the new URL with a 301 status code. I verified with flidder that the status code is correctly returned upon the request. But bots (yahoo slurps, googlebot, etc.) are still hitting the old URLs. Is there something I ...

IsMobileDevice Google Bot problem

Hi, i have a website that have 2 verisions 1 righular and the other fo mobile it"s working great , but when google bot research my site , my site shown on google as amobile ver. i think google bot pass the line: if(Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice) ....redirect to the mobile ver (Not good for google it"s not the right ver) yo...

How to create a bot for gtalk that search for online help Java?

I have idea that for people who use gtalk especially for developers, how to write a bot that recieve question from one developer and ask other online developers for help based on their programming skills? Bot added by the user to gtalk and user will gave his/her skills at first time Then if someone ask a question application will sear...

Determine If a User Is Idented On IRC

In my IRC Bot, there are some commands that I want to only be usable by me, and I want to check to make sure that anyone using my name is identified with nickserv (idented). I couldn't, however, find an easy way to determine this, which is why I'm here. Freenode and Rizon are the primary target networks, if that matters. Edit: I was ac...

Is there a list of known web crawlers?

I'm trying to get accurate download numbers for some files on a web server. I look at the user agents and some are clearly bots or web crawlers, but many for many I'm not sure, they may or may not be a web crawler and they are causing many downloads so it's important for me to know. Is there somewhere a list of know web crawlers with so...

How to make an email bot that replies to users not reply to auto-responses and get itself into mail loops.

I have a bot that replies to users. But sometimes when my bot sends its reply, the user or their email provider will auto-respond (vacation message, bounce message, error from mailer-daemon, etc). That is then a new message from the user (so my bot thinks) that it in turn replies to. Mail loop! I'd like my bot to only reply to real e...