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URLCheckHash()

Last updated January 7, 2002
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John Bartlett                                     John Bartlett

Version: 1 | Requires: ColdFusion 5 | Library: SecurityLib

Description:
After securing a URL by using the URLHash UDF, you can verify that the URL's integrity remains unchanged by verifying the security Hash vale with URLCheckHash.

Return Values:

Example:

Example code will always fail since it checks the CGI variable which will not be correct for this template.

<cfif NOT URLCheckHash()>
Here you would CFLOCATE, or throw some kind of error.
</cfif>

Parameters:

No arguments.

Full UDF Source:

<cfscript>
/**
* Used along with URLHash to verify the URL integrity.
*
* @author John Bartlett (jbartlett@strangejourney.com)
* @version 1, January 7, 2002
*/

function URLCheckHash()
{
var tmp=CGI.Query_String;
var listL=0;
var loop=0;
var URLVar="";
var HashData="";

if (IsDefined("URL.Hash"))
{
if (URL.Hash NEQ "")
{
listL=ListLen(tmp,"&");
URLVar=ListGetAt(tmp,ListL,"&");
if (Left(UCase(URLVar),5) EQ "HASH=")
{
tmp=ListDeleteAt(tmp,ListL,"&");
}
HashData=cgi.Server_Name & cgi.Remote_Addr & cgi.Script_Name & tmp;
if (URL.Hash EQ Hash(HashData)) return 1;
else return 0;
} else return 0;
} else return 0;
}
</cfscript>

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