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DreamT has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi again,
I'm working on a simple "ajax framework", and i'd like to encrypt the parameters so that the Ajax call only has one parameter (data=<encrypted string>), instead of the standard 'a=123&b=12345'.
When the script receives the call, it should of course decrypt it.
It doesn't have to be "ultra-safe" (i.e. no "dangerous parameters" are sent), I just want it to look good;-)
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Re: encrypt / decrypt?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:32 UTC
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Ok, if I understand it right, this module makes it possible to store data "persistent"?
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Re: encrypt / decrypt?
by dorward (Curate) on Jun 17, 2009 at 13:21 UTC
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Please don't. URIs don't need to look pretty, and adding layers of obfuscation makes development, bug fixing and maintenance harder. | [reply] |
Re: encrypt / decrypt?
by tmaly (Monk) on Jun 17, 2009 at 14:28 UTC
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If you wanted to do the encryption on the client side, you could use dojo http://www.dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-5-dojox/dojox-cryptography And then on the server side use a perl module of the same flavor cypher
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Re: encrypt / decrypt?
by citromatik (Curate) on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:35 UTC
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Re: encrypt / decrypt?
by jettero (Monsignor) on Jun 17, 2009 at 18:27 UTC
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I think corion is right about using CGI::Session... but if you don't want to do that, and you insist on obfuscating the URI, you might consider treating the data as a path and using $cgi->path_info to extract the path past your CGI. (This only works in webservers that support it.)
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