[4201] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: URGENT: Help Needed on Plug-ins and CGI for Security Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roberto Galoppini)
Thu Jan 30 10:34:52 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:18:32 +0100
From: Roberto Galoppini <rgaloppini@tim.it>
Reply-To: rgaloppini@tim.it
To: Dr Daniel Tan <ethtan@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, mctiew@csi.po.my
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Dr Daniel Tan wrote:
>
> I am sending this on behalf of a Final Year student - help much appreciated.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a final year project student, and I need advice urgently (project
> deadline round the corner!!)
>
> The requirement of my Win95 project involves invoking another
> application from within Netscape. Essentially what happens is this:
>
> a) the user goes to my web page.
>
> b) he wants to send me a document or a text string from his PC.
>
> c) He can do this either by sending in in plain-text, or cipher it
> using PGP residing on his system.
>
> d) If it is in plain text, he will then post the document using the
> POST command
>
> e) If it is to be encrypted, he will invoke PGP. Here lies my problem.
> I have been trying very hard but with little success to combine CGI
> and plug-in together. The plug-in is suppose to invoke PGP, while the
> CGI transfer the encrypted file from my client system to the
> web-server
Ok, few weeks ago I had a look at LivePGP and through a java class and
netscape live-connect Ming-Ching Tiew <mctiew@csi.po.my> seems to have
done just what you're looking for.
I hope it helps,
Roberto Galoppini
rgaloppini@tim.it
"Security it's just a feeling"
