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Originally Posted by RDFrame
Ummm, no. Or, so you're saying if I give you my client card# and password to Royal Bank, you'd be able to write a script that remotely logs in, downloads my account history, and initiates a transfer to someone else's account? Sorry, but nope, and the airlines have the same sort of security protocols in place.
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I have a couple similar scripts that run weekly and monthly on my accounts.
It's not easy for your typical script kiddie who has never read a single programming
book or taken a single class, but for a qualified professional it's pretty easy.
My own scripts do Washington Mutual Bank, Compass Bank, ePassporte, and
Linkpoint. The scripts have to get the transaction history for our profit sharing plan.
There are a lot of script kiddies posting what they can do with their level
of knowledge and that's cool. I've been a full time professional web
programmer for ten years now so I've done similar things several times.
For one airline it shouldn't take more than about an hour or two.
There are a couple of Perl modules made just for this type of thing
which make it pretty easy. In other words, $200 to
[email protected].
For whoever said you don't need a database, but you use a flat file, go read
"Databases For Dummies" or something before posting again please.
A flat file is the most common type of database. Not all databases are
handled by relational database management systems.
For the person who said it can't be done by a program, what do you think
your web browser is? Anything you can do with your browser is being done
by a program since the browser IS a program. In both cases a human tells
the program what to do. The only difference between the normal way of doing
it with a browser and what baddog wants is that baddog wants the program
to wait several hours before carrying out the instructions. That's no big deal.