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did you tried django as web framework ??? |
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El lun, 07-07-2008 a las 21:15 -0400, James escribió: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I'm writing a web application in CherryPy. What a beautiful thing it |
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> is to write Python code and get a simple yet powerful web output. :) |
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> The web application needs to have some decent level of security and |
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> authentication implemented. |
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> The big issue here is that the user password is stored in a database |
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> and algorithmically calculated as follows: |
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> md5( md5( $password ) + salt ) ) |
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> The salt is also stored in the database (which I have full access to). |
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> I can easily use the md5 library to compare what a user gives me and |
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> see if that's the correct password (based on the salt and the stored |
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> password in the database). I'm unsure, however, how to go about |
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> implementing security into my web application. |
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> CherryPy obviously has a 'session' library in it. But in the periods |
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> of time I've researched writing web applications in the past |
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> (primarily when dealing with PHP), there was always great debate in |
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> how to write a "good" secure web application. (i.e., it becomes tricky |
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> when determining what precisely you should be passing around in terms |
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> of session variables). |
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> Thoughts? Am I going about this the wrong way? It would be much easier |
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> to use either digest or basic http authentication mechanisms, but I |
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> don't think that this is possible because of the fact that the |
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> password is double-hashed in the database (or am I wrong?). |
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> Any help appreciated. :o) |
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> -j |
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Ing. Anielkis Herrera González |
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Desarrollador de Nova |
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Linux User #377809 |
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Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas |
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Cuba |
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