generating md5-hashes in modpython fails
Nikolaus Schlemm
for some (up to now) unknown reasons the generation of md5-hashes fails in
modpython (for me and at least one other user on irc). I discovered this bug
while switching a django-setup from the builtin dev-server to modpython: it
complained that I had tampered with the session cookies - which I didn't ;)
the session ids looked a little unusual: all hashes started with 16 leading
zeros. So next, I tried generating md5-hashes in django and they also had the
leading zeros PLUS when generating a couple of hashes for different strings
in one request the resulting hashes were all the same. After that I tested
md5 hash generation in "plain" modpy - which had the same problems. the odd
thing is: using the md5-module in "regular" python works totally fine! since
this clearly seems to be a modpy issue, there's a thread on the modpy
mailinglist:
http://modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-June/021482.html
note that, there already have been confirmations that this is not a general
modpython issue.
the first workaround was to replace md5 with sha - but since that can hardly
be called a solution, I propose that the use of hashing algorithms should
be "uncoupled" from the actual implementation used. the appended diff might
be a start of into that direction, but certainly might need some clean up ;)
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cheers,
Nikl
Nikolaus Schlemm
another odd factor and its workaround on the modpy-mailinglist:
http://modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-July/021544.html
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cheers,
Nikl