[Zope] Zope Cookie Handling

[Pearson, Brian Edward (GEA, 056278)]

I went ahead and wrote a Java helper class to convert from base 8 to base
10.  This has resolved the problem.  For those interested:

private static String convert(String uid)
	{
		
		StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
		StringTokenizer octalString = new StringTokenizer(uid, "\\",
false);
		Integer convert = new Integer(1);

		while(octalString.hasMoreTokens())
		{
	
sb.append((char)convert.parseInt(octalString.nextToken(), 8));

		}	
		return(sb.toString());
	}

I am still curious as to why Zope converts the data into base 8.

Thanks for your response.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavlos Christoforou [mailto:pavlos@gaaros.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:59 PM
To: Pearson, Brian Edward (GEA, 056278)
Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope Cookie Handling


On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Pearson, Brian Edward (GEA, 056278) wrote:

> 
> Upon investigation of the value contained in the UID cookie, Zope returned
> the following:
>
\316\313\321\310\316\315\314\311\321\312\316\317\317\223\310\321\315\317\313
> \316\317'

I am not sure what is going on but wouldn't it be generally safer if your
java class converts the encrypted cookie in some ASCII text format first?
I think that will solve your Zope problem too.

Regards

Pavlos


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