[Tutor] CGI problem.

Sat Nov 6 20:01:58 CET 2004

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 09:48:35 -0800 (PST), Chad Crabtree
<flaxeater at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mark Kels wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >Thank you!
> >
> >But know I have another problem:
> >
> >I tried to add md5 hashing to the script, but for some reason it
> >
> >always says the the password is wrong...
> >
> >Hare is the program:
> >
> >
> >
> >import cgi
> >
> >import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
> >
> >import md5
> >
> >form = cgi.FieldStorage()
> >
> >x=open("pass.txt","r")
> >
> >form.getfirst("pass")
> >
> >print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> >
> >def printhtml():
> >
> >    print """
> >
> >       <html><body>
> >
> >       <form><input name="pass" type="text"></form>
> >
> >       """
> >
> >def checkpass():
> >
> >    filepass=x.readline() # The password in the file is already
> digested.
> >
> >    userpass=md5.new(form.getfirst("pass")).digest()
> >
> >    if filepass==userpass:
> >
> >        print "OK, come in."
> >
> >    else:
> >
> >        print "Wrong password, try again!"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >printhtml()
> >
> >if form.has_key("pass"):
> >
> >    checkpass()
> >
> >x.close()
> >
> Well I would instead of checking the password I would print the
> hashed
> value and the unhashed value to the page so that you can inspect it
> with
> the password file.
> 
> Generally when I'm trying to figure out problems like this I print
> everything out so that it can be inspected.  This helps a lot with
> debugging.
> 
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Actualy I did that, but didnt think you will need it...
Here is the file content:  \xc8\xff\xe9\xa5\x87\xb1&\xf1R\xed=\x89\xa1F\xb4E
And here is the user password after digestion (in UTF-8 encoding):
��饇�&�R�=��F�E

Thanks!