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poeticexplosion · Veteran Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 109 Location: Chicago

I'm getting the servers thing now, but where's the UN/PW prompt?

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:23 pm

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eccramer · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 102

Quite interesting. It looks like we finally have something to actually ponder. I too am not getting a username/password prompt. It figures that this drops right when I'm really busy and can't sit down to help.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:24 pm

psygene

Clear your Internet Browser temporary buffers. Ideally dont wipe everything out, manually pick and choose what you want to delete (specifically anything associated with www.halo3.com). This will force the Locked servers to appear.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:25 pm

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eccramer · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 102

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:27 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:29 pm

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Nola · Unfettered Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 675

Nothing seems to work for me. Can't access it. Anyway, I'm going to bed... I'll take up the graveyard shift tomorrow.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:30 pm

MjolnirMkII

I am going to try to crack open the swf files and see if i can resurect some of the actionscript and at least get an idea of what is going on in the site.
If Bungie did it right, I will find nothing in the code, but it might end up that I find something of value. Halo3.com, here I come! Now where did I put that jackhammer?

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:33 pm

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It's likely the refreshing happened while they were updating the website. The password prompt may have occurred because of requests being made to files the server locked as they were being copied... just a web server safety mechanism, nothing intentional.

I didn't catch the login prompt, but if it was an NT style login, not a flash login, then it was the flash making http requests through the browser, which caused the login box. The login is gone now, which makes sense, since the site has been updated.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:33 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:34 pm

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eccramer · Veteran Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 102

If I know anything about ARGs (which I think I do, though I've never really been involved in one before, just watched) unlocking the servers won't be done with a login prompt, but instead with interaction with a character. That makes more sense to me at least.

NINJAEDIT: Hey xnbomb, welcome back to the fold. Man, everyone is coming out of the woodwork aren't they?

psygene

Was able to pull something out off a localized "home.xml" file that appeared attached to Halo3.com on my machine:

Addendum: What caught my eye was http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo3/img/server_promo_1.jpg

Promo? It also says that this is the Main Promo and the rest are Small Promos.

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**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:38 pm

tsondie21 · Decorated Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 227

holy crap.

look at this RR video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:42 pm

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