javascript, md5, password fields. eurgh.

[Anon]

hi,

i've got a login screen for admin users on my website and i cant get it working right.

when the user hits the submit button i want the password field to be md5 hashed, easy task you'd have thought 🙂 i can md5 a 'text' input but md5ing a 'password' field isn't happening.

i attempted to have a hidden field that contained the hashed version of the password, but then how do i stop the form sending the plain password to my PHP script? i tried setting it to "" but that's to no avail... i even display an alert box to see what the values of the fields are before the form gets submitted, these are correct but the password still appears in the open in the URL... aargh.

i know it's not strictly PHP (or PHP at all in fact) but i figured it's a pretty common job that i'm just botching with style 🙂

thanks for any help

dom
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[Anon]

if anyones bothered 🙂...

i fixed my own problem by creating a second form and copying the details i wanted transmitted into that form, then using the submit on that - no password field so no password submitted.

that did the trick...

apologies for the babbling, although i'm sure noone else has made such a fudge of a simple user authent....

dom
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[Anon]

Hi -

A more elegant solution is to simply replace the clear password string with the hashed one. The following page explains it, although it is in asp (chunder...)

http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Programming/Scripter/013100/ss02.html

Cheers!
Greg Fawcett