Trouble with MD5

Has anyone experienced problems with Ivo's md5 script. It looks great,
but for some reason on the server I am using I've been getting wrong
values returned. The test function fails and of the 4 hex parts, any
number of them turn up as all f's or all 0's for most strings.

If you want to see what I am talking about, the script I am trying to
use is at www.sorrentopizza.net/md5.mv

Thanks, I'm not really able to begin debugging this because I'm not sure
I understand all of the math functions involved with md5 sums, however I
am willing to help as much as possible if anyone would like to try and
debug this problem.

Andrew


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Andrew Rosborough <[email protected]>

Trouble with MD5



Although I do not think that the script uses any features not available in
former versions, you can try updating to the latest Empresa version. Well,
you can try it first updating your Mia and testing it locally. The script
definitely runs on numerous servers without problems (and Mia as well).

Ivo
http://mivo.truxoft.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Rosborough

Has anyone experienced problems with Ivo's md5 script. It looks great,
but for some reason on the server I am using I've been getting wrong
values returned. The test function fails and of the 4 hex parts, any
number of them turn up as all f's or all 0's for most strings.

If you want to see what I am talking about, the script I am trying to
use is at www.sorrentopizza.net/md5.mv

Thanks, I'm not really able to begin debugging this because I'm not sure
I understand all of the math functions involved with md5 sums, however I
am willing to help as much as possible if anyone would like to try and
debug this problem.

Andrew


--
Andrew Rosborough <[email protected]>

Trouble with MD5



I think a quick fix, since I don't have much access to my web server,
would be to call a simple php script.

I'm a little unsure of how mvcall would work in this situation though.

the php file would look like this:

<?php
echo md5($string);
?>

and mvcall I have that does not work is set up like this:

<MvCALL ACTION="http://.../md5.php"
METHOD="post"
FIELDS="l.string">
<MvASSIGN NAME="l.checksum" VALUE="{decodeentites(callvalue)}">
</MvCALL>

I don't know about fields being l.string, but I don't have a form so I
want to send a string to md5.php. This doesn't work, so does anybody
know the proper way to handle a situation like this?

Thank You,
Andrew

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 01:24 +0100, Ivo Truxa wrote:
> Although I do not think that the script uses any features not available in
> former versions, you can try updating to the latest Empresa version. Well,
> you can try it first updating your Mia and testing it locally. The script
> definitely runs on numerous servers without problems (and Mia as well).
>
> Ivo
> http://mivo.truxoft.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Rosborough
>
> Has anyone experienced problems with Ivo's md5 script. It looks great,
> but for some reason on the server I am using I've been getting wrong
> values returned. The test function fails and of the 4 hex parts, any
> number of them turn up as all f's or all 0's for most strings.
>
> If you want to see what I am talking about, the script I am trying to
> use is at www.sorrentopizza.net/md5.mv
>
> Thanks, I'm not really able to begin debugging this because I'm not sure
> I understand all of the math functions involved with md5 sums, however I
> am willing to help as much as possible if anyone would like to try and
> debug this problem.
>
> Andrew
>
>
--
Andrew Rosborough <[email protected]>

Trouble with MD5



On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:56:25 -0500, Andrew Rosborough
<[email protected]> gave utterance to the following:

> I think a quick fix, since I don't have much access to my web server,
> would be to call a simple php script.
>
> I'm a little unsure of how mvcall would work in this situation though.
>
> the php file would look like this:
>
> <?php
> echo md5($string);
> ?>
>
> and mvcall I have that does not work is set up like this:
>
> <MvCALL ACTION="http://.../md5.php"
> METHOD="post"
> FIELDS="l.string">
> <MvASSIGN NAME="l.checksum" VALUE="{decodeentites(callvalue)}">
> </MvCALL>
>
> I don't know about fields being l.string, but I don't have a form so I
> want to send a string to md5.php. This doesn't work, so does anybody
> know the proper way to handle a situation like this?
>
Unscope the l.string. It's exactly the same as writing an HTML form field:
you put <input name="foo" rather than <input name="g.foo"
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried

Trouble with MD5



Thanks, I found that I used your tip, and since earthlink hosting only
offers php version 3 something, my php file wasn't parsing unless I
named it .php3. Also, $_REQUEST and $_POST array's were not available
before php version 4.1.0 so I had to change that part to
$HTTP_POST_VARS['string'] in order to get things up and running.

I'm sure it is deprecated, but at least it works now.

Andrew

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:42 +1300, Richard Grevers wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:56:25 -0500, Andrew Rosborough
> <[email protected]> gave utterance to the following:
>
> > I think a quick fix, since I don't have much access to my web server,
> > would be to call a simple php script.
> >
> > I'm a little unsure of how mvcall would work in this situation though.
> >
> > the php file would look like this:
> >
> > <?php
> > echo md5($string);
> > ?>
> >
> > and mvcall I have that does not work is set up like this:
> >
> > <MvCALL ACTION="http://.../md5.php"
> > METHOD="post"
> > FIELDS="l.string">
> > <MvASSIGN NAME="l.checksum" VALUE="{decodeentites(callvalue)}">
> > </MvCALL>
> >
> > I don't know about fields being l.string, but I don't have a form so I
> > want to send a string to md5.php. This doesn't work, so does anybody
> > know the proper way to handle a situation like this?
> >
> Unscope the l.string. It's exactly the same as writing an HTML form field:
> you put <input name="foo" rather than <input name="g.foo"
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Andrew Rosborough <[email protected]>