tech-stuff » games http://www.uselessco.de snipplets and more Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:57:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Update: iphone’s iMobsters & co in Browser http://www.uselessco.de/2009/stuff/update-iphones-imobsters-co-in-browser http://www.uselessco.de/2009/stuff/update-iphones-imobsters-co-in-browser#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:49:12 +0000 ralf http://www.uselessco.de/?p=151 After a while if have found some time to write an update on this article.

Storm8 must have changed some things, because the original way in the first article does not work anymore.

I found another way, which follows the same principle.

You still have to grab the http-requests from the iPhone with wireshark or ngrep.
You will receive something like this:

http://im.storm8.com/index.php?version=1.72&udid=234575309t7n5nvzg7zv5gnv34g&pf=485utnv37ghg73vhgm7vm6834h5g78345hg&model=iPhone&sv=3.1.2

You don’t have to write down or copy any of the parameters shown in this url, you just have to call it in a browser.

The url will change, after the game-page has been loaded. You will now see something like:

http://im.storm8.com/home.php?appEntry=true&promote=&bonusCash=0&formNonce=358t3897ggn3hg75h3g50v350v&h=3485ugv309jh7v0gm70jh6gm03#&setTab0Badge=&changeApplicationBadge=0&setTab4Badge=

Now the cookie has been set to your browser, and you can call the game simply by attaching the h-Parameter to the basic game-url:

http://im.storm8.com/home.php?h=3485ugv309jh7v0gm70jh6gm03#

Thats all.

I wrote a little php-script, which takes the h-parameter in line 3 and also puts the main-navigation on the top of the window. Due to copyright-restrictions I will not give away the image-files included in the source-code. Search google for screenshots and get create your own navigation. :-)

Here comes the code:

<?php
 
	$h = "3485ugv309jh7v0gm70jh6gm03#";	
 
	if($_GET['nav'] == "")
	{
		$_GET['nav'] = "home";
	}
 
	$url  	 = 'http://im.storm8.com/'.$_GET['nav'].'.php?h='.$h;
	echo $url;
?>
<html>
	<body bgcolor="#000000">
		<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			<tr>
				<td><a href="imob.php?nav=home"><img src="imob_01.jpg" border="none"></a></td>
				<td><a href="imob.php?nav=missions"><img src="imob_02.jpg" border="none"></td>
				<td><a href="imob.php?nav=attack"><img src="imob_03.jpg" border="none"></td>
				<td><a href="imob.php?nav=equipment"><img src="imob_04.jpg" border="none"></td>
				<td><a href="imob.php?nav=recruit"><img src="imob_05.jpg" border="none"></td>
			</tr>
		</table>
		<iframe frameborder="0" width="340px" height="600px" src="<?php echo $url; ?>"></iframe>
	</body>
</html>

imobscreen
The result of this script looks like this in the chrome-browser. Please be aware, that it will only work as long as the cookie you set with the first url is valid.

Have fun.

P.S. I just noticed that all functions with popups (as selling equipment or item-information) will not work in the browser.

]]> http://www.uselessco.de/2009/stuff/update-iphones-imobsters-co-in-browser/feed 27 How to play iphone’s imobsters & co in firefox http://www.uselessco.de/2009/stuff/how-to-play-iphones-imobsters-co-in-firefox http://www.uselessco.de/2009/stuff/how-to-play-iphones-imobsters-co-in-firefox#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:53:28 +0000 ralf http://www.uselessco.de/?p=82 See an update of this article here.

The games iMobsters, Vampires Live and Kingdoms Live are widespread MMORPGs für the iPhone. The games are completly based on html but embedded into an app.

The user-authentication is made via a guid in combination with the cellphone-number.

So the first task is to get the complete url with parameters for your iPhone.

Therefore you have to install a package-dumper like wireshark and a proxy server on your machine. If your internet-gateway is a linux-box skip this and simply use ngrep.

Connect your iPhone with your WLAN and set your machine as proxy-server. Start the package-dump open e.g. iMobsters on your iPhone. Look for http-packages in the dump. You will find a request to a url looking like that (this is an example for iMobsters):

http://im.storm8.com/index.php?version=F1.4&udid=437236572346572465782964&
pf=4524556723678730575968&pnum=+49&20171&2012345678&model=iPhone

This url is a little messed up by the encoding, so you should replace the “+” from the international prefix with “00″ and remove all encoded whitespaces “%20″.

http://im.storm8.com/index.php?version=F1.4&udid=437236572346572465782964&
pf=4524556723678730575968&pnum=004917112345678&model=iPhone

Take this url an put it into firefox. You will see a blank page, because the website detects, that your client is not an iPhone. What we have to do next, is to change firefox’s browser signature.

Open firefox and enter “about:config” into the address-field. A whole bunch of settings come up. Right-click into the window and click “New” -> “String“.

Enter 

general.useragent.override

in the first window popping up and 

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; de-de)
AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/5H11

into the second one.

Now try the above game-url again.

Hint: If you use this, it would be wise not to play the game via your Iphone (using UMTS / GPRS) and your computer at the same time. The ip-addresses will be different at the same time. This could drag the game-provider’s attention on your account.

Hint²: If you update your iPhone, maybe your safari-browser-signature will also change. You should always keep the signature of your phone and your fake-signature in sync.

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