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The wizard studied the inscription on the door. "The script is ancient Elvish...."

"Ooh!" the dwarf said. "I know this one! Speak 'friend' and enter!"

"No," replied the wizard. "It says: downloadeth the Gates of Moria App, for this is how you open the gates."

The hafling nodded. "Makes sense. Everything's an app these days."

"Just what I need, another useless app on my phone." The wizard stared at his device. "Well, crap. I can't get cell service in these mountains...."

@vanellopemint

So Merry and Pippin pull out their laptops, realize the door opening API call is unsecured, and use curl to POST "X-Authorized: Friend" to it, being sure to set the language encoding to Elvish first.

@pseudonym @LapTop006 i literally had to Curl my way into my lab today because i forgot my key. @vanellopemint

@pseudonym @Unixbigot @LapTop006 @vanellopemint when I broke my arm, I got home and realised there was no way I could get my DESFire fob out of my pocket to get in to the house. Thankfully there is a way to log in on my phone, which I could just about manage left handed!