Comments on: UW Registration Method

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:18:02 +0000

I doubt there’s a real technical benefit, but I like it a lot more than having to type out and recheck everything at 5:51am when I feel like utter garbage. Plus, putting it on Dante can make you be sure to log into MyUW right away so that’s one less thing to muck up.

It might be that I worry too much about getting the wrong accounting quiz section or something like that because I hit B intstead of C, but it’s nice to just be able to wake up, navigate to one page, login, and click one link.

By: curtis

curtis — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:01:31 +0000

Does this have any benefit over simply refreshing the page that says “registration period hasn’t started yet”? Because the web request will still be coming from your local browser, right? Don’t see the advantage of the html being served from Dante. Maybe if you wrote a PHP script that repeatedly requested the page it would make a difference that it was on Dante?

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:14:50 +0000

Strategy+1:

1. Do the schedule finder the night before
2. Click “register for this schedule”
3. Copy the URL from the page it takes you to, even though it says “Your registration period has not started yet” (or whatever)
4. Put that link in an html doc in a NetID-protected directory in Dante
5. Navigate to said html doc the next morning, and keep opening the link in a new tab
6. Profit

By: schooler

schooler — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:18:29 +0000

Have multiple browsers open at the same time, each with the schedule finder open. This way you get as many sessions as you have browsers. Starting at 5:53, continually cycle through the Go buttons. As soon as you have a bite on one of them, you can go back to sleep!