Wake DEV instance command

[CGraabaek]

Find a way to wake a DEV instance from the extension.

[ambsoerensen]

reverse engineering ftw.

i think the same approach as with updates might be feasible.

assmuning they use servicenow themselves: apparantly all ajax calls are routed though a processor named xmlhhtp.do. taking a predefined set of parameters (defined in the script include) with the body being url-form-encoded. To invoke a processor you need to use cookie based authentication. which requires you to setup a persistent session using the api endpoint. (basically means storing and maintainig cookies on each request).

if we figure out the input parameters we might be able to set up a persistent session and invoke their endpoint.

1. Authenticate with the dev site.
2. find the endpoint
3. invoke the endpoint.

have already implemented persistent sessions in the api manager class.

[CGraabaek]

There is this repo which does what we want, it is written in go though. https://github.com/0x111/servicenow-instance-wakeup

[ambsoerensen]

Not to fund of his idea.

It's basically ahk using Chrome. 😅

[CGraabaek]

Yeah I know, just to show what others have acheived.

[ambsoerensen]

we need to get smarter then. ;)

It is just not stable enough when we get end users onboard.