Rapidshare Premium cookie (ssekuk)

this is not the ordinary stolen cookie tragedy where you woke up in the morning with sunshine on your face and wobbled to your favourite morning-spot only to find out your cookie jar was empty or better yet, your cookie jar was mysteriously missing altogether so you casted yourself to the corner of your room head between your toes feeling dejected...cheer up! they're just cookies anyway :D

if you're a rapidshare premium user and having "direct download" option enabled, listen here intensely...your cookie is not safe...it could be stolen...
how could it be stolen?...it's for another story...
so what's the big deal getting your cookie stolen?...rapidshare cookie is lame...it has the following format

user=xxxxx-yyyyyyy
xxxxx = your account ID number
yyyyyy = password in url-encoded format...

once it's stolen, your privacy is compromised...they could learn your password or utilize the cookie to get premium account priviledges...

unbelievable?..believe it...that's what happended to my account last week...no, it's not because of phishing sites...it's the cookie...i can swear on that...i don't mind if they used my cookie actually...but they used up all my bandwidth!...filthy dang thieves haha

so we have a few options to overcome this...

1) import/export cookie:
i use Orbit Downloader, the best downloader on the market..having tried other downloaders(flashget, DAP, IDM, etc), with lame Streamyx at my disposal, getting broken files is not a surprise...but with Orbit Downloader, i'd be scared to death if there's a broken file wahaha...

so here are the steps:
- clear all the cookies/cache of IE using all means you could find (e.g: CCleaner)
- login to your rapishare account to get the cookie set
- export your cookie (on IE goto File >> Import/Export >> export cookies)...save it as cookie.txt
- logout your rapidshare account
- open the cookie.txt and delete other cookies except this line:

rapidshare.com TRUE / FALSE 123456789 user xxxxx-yyyyyyyyyy

- then save it

so when you wanna download something from rapidshare:
- make sure "Clipboard Monitoring" option is enabled on your Orbit Downloader..
- browse to the site containing the dowload URLs using your favourite browser...
- copy all the URLs...the Orbit will pop up waiting for your action...
- open the IE, import the cookie (File >> Import/Export >> Import Cookies)...
- start the download...
- when the Orbit has initiated the downloads, you could now delete the cookie by inserting this URL to your IE browser...

https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premium.cgi?logout=1 <--- for rapishare.com acc
http://rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/premium.cgi?logout=1 <---- for rapishare.de acc

it would display "The Cookie has been deleted."..and yes, your imported cookie has been deleted...you could bookmark the URL if you want...

- everytime you wanna download, import the RS cookie, initiate download and delete the cookie...

but it has some major drawbacks...
say you download 20 files on one go...the files with "waiting" status on the Orbit can't be downloaded after you deleted the cookie...you're gonna have to wait until the last file had been initiated before you could delete the cookie...
or you let your friends use your account and they forgot to delete the cookie...
or you yourself forgot to delete the cookie :D...

so Aria2 CLI downloader comes to the rescue...

2) Aria2 with "Direct Download" option disabled
with "Direct Download" option disabled at your rapidshare account, no cookie will be set/used...and Orbit Downloader can't work well in this scenario...even if you used "Login to Server" option...and you can't use your exported cookie for batch download in Orbit..

but Aria2 can la boss...
pstt...with the same file, 160kbps for Orbit but 200kbps using Aria2 on my flimsy 1Mbps Streamyx...isn't it amazing? :D...promo aside, first, you should get your hands dirty before you could enjoy this awesome downloader...and oh! it's portable..you could resume your downloads anywhere...

because it's command-line downloader, meaning, there's no GUI, don't let it scare you away...even if you're an acute Windozer wahaha...
read and learn...usually, you wanna use it like this:

aria2c --http-user=RSUSERNAME --hhtp-passwd=RSPASSWORD -i url.txt -s10 -j4 --dir=D:\My Download

and there's a GUI for Aria2...(but you should alter it a bit to use http-user and http-passwd option because there's a small mistake in its c0ding...find all "password" instances and replace them with "passwd" instead)...

but i don't like the GUI as it will freeze there on your desktop on top of other windows while you're downloading files...or you're a Firefox die hard fan armed with Flashgot, with "direct download" disabled, it doesn't seem to work well with Aria2 on Windows...

so with the help of suitable amount of niccotines in my bloodstream, i made this lame batch file for my rapidshare need...it has batch download, single download, resume download (even for different download folder) and other basic shikes.. why not using C++ or something for GUI for this Aria2 you may asked...being busy and all that, i think this batch file will live a long life :D...besides, i love CLI :D...

so here's the batch file if you wanna give it a try...tested on Windows XP and Vista...you should 'configure' it in setting.txt file....no warranty, no help file, ask here if you got problems or just ditch it into your recycle bin :D...

http://rapidshare.com/files/246339251/aria2rapidshare.rar
p/w: plpohbetik
size: 3kb

//great! now where's my groundnut cookies...haha