Sorry, Greenpeace, but apparently you may not have gotten the memo.

Apparently the weblog.greenpeace.org site is written in Rails?!? (Via curl: “Server: Mongrel 1.1″) Surely the method described below does not _actually_ submit 100s of counted votes!?!

Using my super 3r33t h@x0r skills, I spent 2 minutes writing a shell script that votes for our beloved Mr. Splashy Pants X number of times, using curl and a simple for loop!

Now, no doubt Greenpeace can easily stop this madness with a few lines of code on their server, but in the spirit of good fun and edumacation, here is the script:

#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=0
while [  $COUNTER -lt 100 ]; do
    echo Vote num. $COUNTER
    echo “”
    curl -v -d “item_id=65&commit=SUBMIT+MY+VOTE” -e “http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/great-whale-trail/gwt-vote?MM_URL=linkfromsplashblog” -A “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)” http://vote.greenpeace.org/11/12
    echo “”; echo “”
    echo Sleeping…
    sleep 5
    let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
    echo “”
done

Instructions for OS X (or Linux)

Copy and paste the script into a new file called “splashy.sh”. Then run the following:

chmod 755 splashy.sh
./splashy.sh

To adjust the number of times it will run, modify this line:

while [  $COUNTER -lt 100 ]; do

Change “100″ to “50″ or the desired number of votes. There’s also a “sleep 5″ line that you can adjust accordingly.

You might also want to change the User Agent specified to curl (I picked an IE7 default); it’s the “-A” param. Here’s a List of Common User Agents.

Redditors, I know you will be on your best behavior with this script, riiiiight?!?!

Disclaimer: I take no responsibility whatsoever for what you crazy people out there do with this.