Re: MD5 hash query

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Friday 28 December 2001 12.23, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>>from a quick eyeball, you need to feed id, method (An ENUM value) and
>>then the URL.
>>
>>===
>>(unsigned char *) &id, sizeof(id));
>>(unsigned char *) &method, sizeof(method));
>>(unsigned char *) url, strlen(url));
>>===
>>
>>So there are unique for a given version of squid (id and method will
>>change), and potentially even for different C compilers or platforms.
>>
>
> id is only in private temporary keys.
>
> method is the method enum converted into a single char.
>
>
> perl, simplified for GET (enum 1) only:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
> print uc(md5_hex("\1", $ARGV[0])),"\n";

Henrik, you're my hero!

That did the trick right nicely. Now I can get onto the fun stuff
(database construction). Robert you were right as well, I was just too
tired to notice (you suggested '\1'...I was thinking I had to translate
that into a 'real' binary representation--see what sleep deprivation can
do to you?).

Thanks guys.

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