Re: About CodingStrategies for Database IDs

2008-12-13 Thread Peter Ertl
Daring to go even further, I think it's quite paranoid to obfuscate database ids. The danger of database ids in urls is not that people know about it but they can fake them by altering the url. So the solution is not some snakeoil-like encryption of the id but proper and thorough checking

About CodingStrategies for Database IDs

2008-12-13 Thread Ayodeji Aladejebi
Michael Sparer blogged at http://talk-on-tech.blogspot.com/2008/12/wicket-neat-url-encoding-strategy-and.html and discussed certain approach for encoding and decoding IDs in parameters. The general use of encoding strategies I understand but I really wanted to understand why the complexity of using