Sunday, January 3, 2010

Re: Secret URLs

just use UUIDs
that "feature" comes with it automatically

On 3 Jan., 08:41, Walther <waltherl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not really possible afaik.
>
> But, security through obscurity is not the solution. You should rather
> spend the time writing code that will make sure that the user/referer
> has permissions to perform that action.
>
> On Jan 1, 9:54 pm, anka <andreas.katz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi @all,
>
> > I have a (almost) simple question! Is it possible to make all cake php
> > REST URLs unreadable? What I mean is, that a given REST URL like ".../
> > user/delete/10" is very simple to read for a human and it is very
> > simple to guess that I can call this URL with any ID i want. So it
> > would be very helpful, to generate URLs like ".../
> > aasdf080234ljasdflk234" or something like that so no human can modify
> > the URL within the browser and to avoid anoying side effects within
> > the system.
>
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > Andreas

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