feat(protocols): add ForcAD HTTP protocol support#189
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Pull request overview
Adds a new submission protocol plugin (forcad_http) intended to correctly interpret ForcAD’s PUT /flags HTTP receiver responses (which lack an explicit status field) so CookieFarm can update per-flag results.
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- Introduces a ForcAD-specific HTTP protocol implementation that derives verdicts from the human-readable
msgfield. - Adds helpers for extracting error messages, cleaning the
"[<flag>] "prefix, and mapping messages to CookieFarm status constants.
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| req.Header.Set("X-Team-Token", teamToken) | ||
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Adds a dedicated HTTP submission protocol for the ForcAD Attack-Defense CTF (https://github.com/pomo-mondreganto/ForcAD), in
cookiefarm/pkg/protocols/forcad_http.go.The existing
cc_httpprotocol doesn't work correctly against ForcAD: it relies astatusfield in the checker's JSON response ("ACCEPTED","DENIED", …), ForcAD's HTTP receiver doesn't send one.ForcAD's
PUT /flagsendpoint replies with a JSON array of objects shaped like:[{"msg": "[] ", "flag": ""}]
There is no explicit status field, the verdict is only encoded in the readable
msg. As a result, withcc_httpthe flag status was never updated.Tested manually against a running ForcAD instance:
cc_httpleft the statuses unchanged