Hi Michael,
I did something similar to this several years back using inline C:
https://varnish-cache.org/docs/5.1/users-guide/vcl-inline-c.html
<https://varnish-cache.org/docs/5.1/users-guide/vcl-inline-c.html>
I’m super-rusty on my C, so ask better minds, but I’d start by doing the if
check in C and leaving the rest of the logic in VCL. I.e.
strtol() with a base of 16 (see
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/strtol.html
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/strtol.html>) and then a
direct check of that against gmtime() - delta (hopefully your unix hex
timestamps in UTC?). Double-check the input to strtol is safe — this approach
has untrusted inputs getting run through into C.
-Jeff
> On Apr 13, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Michael Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a URL that contains a Unix hex timestamp (something like 5ace8c5d).
> The timestamp should be within X minutes of now, and is used as part of an
> access control mechanism. I want to do something like this:
>
> if (std.time(req.http.x-hextime, now) < now - 1w) {
> ...
> }
>
> Is there an efficient way in VCL to either convert Hex to Dec so that this
> comparison can be done, or some other solution that does not involve changing
> the data in the URL.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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