Phrack - great old school hacking e-zine

[killab]

Old school e-zine with a ton of interesting articles.

You wont find any color pictures there if that's your thing.

http://www.phrack.org/

[ryoh]

Well since we're talking about phrack link I'll add a little script I wrote years back to back up phrack files. you can tell its age because at the time i wrote it we were only up to issue 67.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import socket


def recvline(sock):
    stop = 0
    line = ''
    while True:
        i = sock.recv(1)
        if i == '\n': stop = 1
        line += i
        if stop == 1:
            break
    return line

# super awesome recvall function!
def recvall(sock, size):
    buff = ''
    while True:
        buff += sock.recv(size)
        if len(buff) < size:
            size -= len(buff)
            continue
        else:
            return buff

def getheader(s):
    header = []
    for n in range(9):
        header.append(recvline(s))
    return header


def main():
    host = socket.gethostbyname('www.phrack.org')
    port = 80
    for issue in xrange(0,67): # modify for issue ranges
        print "Getting issue {0} of 67".format(issue+1),
        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        s.connect((host,port))
        # if statement for the naming
        s.sendall('GET /archives/tgz/phrack{0}.tar.gz HTTP/1.1\r\n'
                    .format(issue+1))
        s.sendall('Host: www.phrack.org\r\n\r\n')

        header = getheader(s)
        load = int(header[6].split(':')[1].rstrip())
        print "size: " + str(load) + " bytes"
        # another if statement for naming
        f = open('phrack{0}.tar.gz'.format(issue+1),'wb')

        while True:
            recv_size = 100
            if load < recv_size:
                f.write(recvall(s, load))
                break
            else:
                f.write(recvall(s, recv_size))
            load -= recv_size

        f.close()
        s.close()
    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()