Santas Gift-Tracking
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Chat with Yuri near the apartment building about Santa's mysterious gift tracker and unravel the holiday mystery.
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Challenge

Hey there - I’m Yori! I used to be Ed’s lost intern back in 2015… but don’t worry, I’ve been found!
I’m trying to access Santa’s mysterious gift tracker using cURL, but it’s got me completely stumped.
Can you check the terminal and see what you can do to get it working?

Solution

This task is guided by the system. Therefore, I will only show the commands and most important console outputs here:

======= Neighborhood Santa-Tracking Service =======

Oh no! Mischievous gnomes have tampered with the neighborhood's Santa-tracking service,
built by the local tinkerer to help everyone know when Santa arrives on Christmas Eve!

The tracking application was originally configured to run on port 8080, but after the
gnomes' meddling, it's nowhere to be found. Without this tracker, nobody in the neighborhood
will know when to expect Santa's arrival!

The tinkerer needs your help to find out which port the santa_tracker process is 
currently using so the neighborhood tracking display can be updated before Christmas Eve!

Your task:
1. Use the 'ss' tool to identify which port the santa_tracker process is 
   listening on
2. Connect to that port to verify the service is running

Hint: The ss command can show you all listening TCP ports and the processes 
using them. Try: ss -tlnp

Good luck, and thank you for helping save the neighborhood's Christmas spirit!
🎄 tinkerer @ Santa Tracker ~ 🎅 $ ss -tlnp
State             Recv-Q            Send-Q                         Local Address:Port                          Peer Address:Port            Process            
LISTEN            0                 5                                    0.0.0.0:12321                              0.0.0.0:*                            
🎄 tinkerer @ Santa Tracker ~ 🎅 $    telnet localhost 12321
...
{
  "status": "success",
  "message": "\ud83c\udf84 Ho Ho Ho! Santa Tracker Successfully Connected! \ud83c\udf84",
  "santa_tracking_data": {
...