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Php + encrypted password
Name: Soumen Biswas Date: October 22, 2003 at 20:46:10 Pacific OS: Linux 7.2 CPU/Ram: 233/128SD
Comment:
How should i pass md5 encrypted password in php programming so that it will not visible in browser's address location ? please help me
Name: gpp Date: October 23, 2003 at 07:05:37 Pacific
Reply:
Store it in the session.. I dont work with php much, but arent session variables serialized when being passed from page to page?
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Response Number 2
Name: zeroguy Date: October 23, 2003 at 14:32:01 Pacific
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It depends, I think... if you prompted for a password using a 403 Unauthorized header at one point, the password should still be in the password var until the browser gets another 403. But if it's in a regular variable, like $pass or something, I'm not sure that it's saved.
As for you question, the only way I can think of would be to use a hidden form variable to pass to your script, but then it would be plainly visible if anyone looked at the source to the page. But, I think it's always going to be visible, that's why it's encrypted. Why do you want to hide an encrypted password anyway?
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