{"id":6498,"date":"2012-11-02T16:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2012-11-02T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:27:34","slug":"chrome-dev-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/chrome-dev-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Chrome Dev Tools Got Me an Awesome License Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingdigitally.net\/2012\/11\/how-the-chrome-dev-tools-got-me-an-awesome-license-plate.html\">Christian Cantrell<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siegel\/status\/264090317349851136\">Rich Siegel<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.livingdigitally.net\/2012\/11\/how-the-chrome-dev-tools-got-me-an-awesome-license-plate.html\"><p>Being the determined hacker that I am, I initially saved the source from the confirmation page, fixed the error by turning &ldquo;&amp;nbsp&rdquo; into &ldquo;&amp;amp;nbsp&rdquo; (the character code for ampersand followed by &ldquo;nbsp&rdquo; &mdash; the proper way to escape user input in this case), and started working on tricking the DMV&rsquo;s servers into believing that the form I was submitting actually came from them. But then it occurred to me that I could simply fix the DMV&rsquo;s mistake using the WebKit Web Inspector. I opened up the awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/chrome-developer-tools\/\">Chrome Dev Tools<\/a>, made the change in the live page, and the form submitted perfectly. About two weeks later, my brand new plates arrived.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Cantrell (via Rich Siegel): Being the determined hacker that I am, I initially saved the source from the confirmation page, fixed the error by turning &ldquo;&amp;nbsp&rdquo; into &ldquo;&amp;amp;nbsp&rdquo; (the character code for ampersand followed by &ldquo;nbsp&rdquo; &mdash; the proper way to escape user input in this case), and started working on tricking the DMV&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6500,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}