byron wise wrote:
>
> I have a script that sends key=value pairs in the url to another script. My
> sysadmin has informed me (and showed me) how unsafe it is to do this for
> this particular script. When this second script is run, it grabs a
> parameter out from the url (via CGI.pm). This parameter is the path to a
> pdf document that it then prints out to the web browser. In trying to fix
> this, I used Crypt::CBC and Digest::MD5 to add a higher level of security.
> The second script decrypts the path just fine. Here is the problem. IE
> doesn't like having so many characters in the url. So, even thought my
> script decrypts the url and opens the file AND prints out the binary data,
> the browser won't display it.
> I do know it is the browser not liking the length of the url. Some testing
> on my part confirmed it. Does anybody have any suggestions how I can
> encrypt the data and it won't be too long? And, has anyone ran across this
> before??
Maybe you could use POST method instead of GET ?
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