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DavidSarif

Earlier today, I wanted to put a puzzle online and made something unusual on itstoohard, and I think I broke it for a while. The website started getting very slow, so I checked on an "is it down for everyone" website and it told me the site was down for everyone.

What I did was - I think - likely to break the site, I think (I won't tell it because I don't want people to try it for fun).

Then, the site got back and I tried to post my puzzle again. The "save puzzle" did not respond.

Now, whenever I try to access my user page, I see a "database error" message. I can still log out and log in again, but I can't access my page or make new puzzles, as the "save puzzle" button doesn't work anymore.

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oh01

If you really think it was you and not just a coincidence (which i find more likely), you can contact admins either on igiveup@itstoohard.com or through their steam profile/group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/itstoohard

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DavidSarif

Thank you, I will try that. I really think I did something, not just because of the downtime, but also the database error that I now have...

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atiffarrukh

I'm also getting "database error" when I try to see the solution of my puzzle or try to edit it.

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sp202

It's working fine for me.

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DavidSarif

Yes, it is working fine for me too. The downtime was for everyone but short. The issue is somewhere else, if you read the OP you'll see that everything works except for my profile page, that now gives a "database error".

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sp202

Oh, right. Sorry, didn't notice the user page bit.

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DavidSarif

By the way, can you input answers ? Rinarin can't, I tried and cannot either.

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sp202

Haha, we seem to have both posted at exactly the same time (13 seconds ago as of typing this post), my post is in reply to Rinarin below.

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DavidSarif

Haha, we killed itstoohard, time to deal with steamgifts :-P

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Rinarin

Site is barely working for me. Pages load but very slowly but I can't input answers anywhere, so it seems it's not just you.

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DavidSarif

Ok, good to know :-/

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Rinarin

I'd say wait, since there seem to be other issues as well and not just the database error.

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sp202

The pages load as fast as usual for me, but I can't seem to check my answers. When I click check it doesn't do anything.

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Rinarin

Indeed, now it loads just fine (took about 2 minutes to load each page earlier that I tried).

I can't check my answers either.

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Enverex

Did you create a quiz that said:

Solve the following:
1 + 2 = 5"; DROP TABLE users;

:P

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DavidSarif

No, I didn't do that, I don't understand. But I did kind of "misuse" the site (again, not on purpose).

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wujekandrzej

if you don't understand then i'm 100% sure you don't have anything to do with istoohard problems

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DavidSarif

Are you saying that only people with html/coding knowledge are likely to cause bugs/ crashes to a website ?

You don't know what I was trying to do. Not saying that I'm responsible for sure but I did do something unusual as an user.

edit : I'm 90% sure you're right and I have nothing to do with this, but the coincidence is just a bit weird to me.

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Crizyz

Well, I created a puzzle as well after which it started acting weird, but won't have anything to do with my puzzle. :P
Oh, and if you wanmt to find it, I guess you should look at recent topics. :P

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Sq1rr3l

what exactly is it doing? i tried to create a quiz like this but nothing happen when I click on "save" D:

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cams02

It's an attempt at a SQL injection.
Trying to activate some code that may affect the site's database.

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Vassay

Damn, just like that comic... :D

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cams02

I'm really really curious on what you did, but I guess I'll never know. :(
Any hints? :p

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DavidSarif

I messaged the itstoohard staff about the problem, if they tell me I did not cause it I might post what made me think I was responsible.

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Closed 10 years ago by DavidSarif.