Re: comments enhancements

Bill Mill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:25:49 -0500, Bill Mill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2. Secret number image thingy. Depends on my plugin 'nospam', which
> > itself depends on 'session'. They can be found here:
> > http://www.c-area.ch/code/pyblosxom/plugins/
> >
> 
> Aww man, I was totally gonna do that. It was gonna be a neat little
> PIL hack. Good stuff, you beat me to it. It looks exactly like I was
> going to make it look. One question: how does it work with cgi? Does
> it? Do you embed its value in a form?
> 
> I had a thought that, if you wanted to embed the number in a form, you
> could do it and still be succesful. How? Simply by having a secret
> multiplier stored in config.py. Before sticking the number in the
> form, you'd multiply it by the number in config.py (which should be
> world-inaccessible), and when you decode it, simply divide it by that
> number. I thought that would be another neat little hack.
> 

Oh man that totally wouldn't work. It's a good thing I don't do security.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com


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