In an effort to do something different with my chat app, I thought it'd be cool to "integrate" with an EXTERNAL third party app - phpBB.
I run a little blog... www.thecaniac.com (I'm a big fan of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey club). I'm also a heavy participant in the organizations official message boards, which use phpBB. So I put up a chat room on my blog, and I want people to use their phpbb usernames.. but I don't want people to be able to masquerade as someone else. So I wrote a little script that actually uses my message board login, and using CFHTTP, logs into phpbb and sends a private message to the user with a link they can use to access the chat room. The link contains an "access key" which is encrypted and url-encoded, it contains their username and a timestamp. And it worked! I was actually amazed. Question - how difficult is it to crack the encyption that CF uses by default? Without knowing the key I used to encrypt it, of course. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232868 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
