[thelist] Checksum web pages ???

[Toby Mills]

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you by adding the checksum value into
the
> file change the checksum of the file?
> Thus invalidating the checksum ...

Lol, good point, ok, well you could just add the checksum to the database
and leave it off the file. 

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toby mills
web developer & programmer


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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Rob Wilson
Sent: 18 February 2004 15:56
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] Checksum web pages ???

>But I image your best bet is to write a script which will run through files
in a folder and insert a meta tag into >your html page with the checksum on
it and also add the file to a database table of checksums.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you by adding the checksum value into the
file change the checksum of the file?

Thus invalidating the checksum ...

The other concern about putting the checksum into a file available on the
space is that if the hacker knows the expected checksum he can change the
file such that the checksum matches. 

Regards,
Rob

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