[ic] MD5 hex

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Mike Heins)]

Quoting roland (twentys@libero.it):
> > Quoting roland (twentys@libero.it):
> > > Hi to everybody.
> > > I need to convert a series of parameters like
> > > customerid=123&Number=456&.......
> > > into a MD5 encryption hex.
> > > Does anyone has the right instructions?
> > 
> > You cannot "convert" it and retrieve it, which sounds like what you
> > want. If you want to use it as a key to retrieve or verify something,
> > you can.
> > 
> > A simple tag in interchange.cfg would do the trick:
> > 
> > UserTag md5hash Interpolate
> > UserTag md5hash HasEndTag
> > UserTag md5hash Routine <<EOF
> > use MD5;
> > sub {
> >     my $val = shift;
> >     my $hash = MD5->hexhash($val);
> >     return $hash;
> > }
> > EOF
> > 
> > At that point, it would work as:
> > 
> >    [md5hash]what you want to encode[/md5hash]
> > 
> 
> Sorry... It doesn't works.
> Any idea?
> I'm using IC 4.8
> 

That code will work on all versions of Interchange, and does. It
even works on Minivend back to 3.12 or so. It is tested.

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Mike Heins
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