[thelist] Checksum web pages ???

Rob Wilson rob at bean-stalk.net
Wed Feb 18 09:51:45 CST 2004


>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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