Question

Need Quick SIMPLE encryption/URL converter

Asked by: T-Snipez

~Welcome - Thank you for even looking!

Some of you may be familiar with a cgi script called CGI Proxy - it is a script that basically serves as a web proxy and allows visited web pages to be rewritten extremely well to redirect traffic through the server in which the script is hosted on (thus.. it is a web proxy).

It can be downloaded from http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/releases/cgiproxy.2.1beta15.tar.gz

The script has a feature that I would like to utilize that encrypts the url entry form with javascript, but the existing code doesn't do much and it looks like it just needs some small, quick work (I'm thinking just rot 13 or something simple like that) - in order to assist me with this problem, I would recommend those helping to quickly download the script (it is rather small).  
On line 980, change the 0 to 1 in "$ENCODE_URL_INPUT= 0 ;" - that will activate the feature.
Now the workings behind this feature are on lines 462-475, and are as follows:

*****************************************************************************
function _proxy_jslib_proxy_encode(URL) {
    URL= URL.replace(/^([\w\+\.\-]+)\:\/\//, '$1/') ;
//    URL= URL.replace(/(.)/g, function (s,p1) { return p1.charCodeAt(0).toString(16) } ) ;
//    URL= URL.replace(/([a-mA-M])|[n-zN-Z]/g, function (s,p1) { return String.fromCharCode(s.charCodeAt(0)+(p1?13:-13)) }) ;

    return URL ;
}

function _proxy_jslib_proxy_decode(enc_URL) {
//    enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/([a-mA-M])|[n-zN-Z]/g, function (s,p1) { return String.fromCharCode(s.charCodeAt(0)+(p1?13:-13)) }) ;
//    enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/([\da-fA-F]{2})/g, function (s,p1) { return String.fromCharCode(eval('0x'+p1)) } ) ;
    enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/^([\w\+\.\-]+)\//, '$1://') ;
    return enc_URL ;
}

*****************************************************************************

As you can see, two seemingly example encryptions have been commented, but when I've tried to run the examples, I've ran into a bunch of errors - so I think some extremely simple encryption would do.

Let me explain what I'm trying to do - when telling CGI Proxy what website to go to, it sends this data unencrypted back to the server where it then sends the CGI Proxy script off to rewrite the page.  But, the problem with this is that network sniffers easily pick this up and I'm just wanting to encrypt this url entry form to something different other than the plaintext (like google.com).

FOR THOSE QUICKLY BROWSING - this is all I want to do:
I want to change that code above so it can encrypt that string with something extremely simple like rot 13, then decrypt it when it reaches the server.  I just want something rather simple that works, and any fast, encryption will do!

I'm not too familiar with CGI Scripts - so any and all help would be greatly appreciated!  If there is any confusion whatsoever, please don't hesitate to comment and I'll do my best to help.  ANY help will be considered golden with this problem - hope to hear from you soon!

Thanks!

P.S. Remember, I just want to convert the inputed URL to something that isn't plain-text, something just simple, rot 13 is a good example but I don't know how to utilize it.  Good luck and thanks again!

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2007-01-05 at 16:25:31ID22113017
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Answers

 

by: ZvonkoPosted on 2007-01-05 at 16:53:57ID: 18256068

Check this:

function _proxy_jslib_proxy_encode(URL) {
  URL= URL.replace(/^([\w\+\.\-]+)\:\/\//, '$1/') ;
  URL= URL.replace(/(.)/g, function (s,p1) { return p1.charCodeAt(0).toString(16) } ) ;
  URL= URL.replace(/([a-m])|[n-z]/gi, function (s,p1) { return String.fromCharCode(s.charCodeAt(0)+(p1?13:-13)) }) ;

  return URL ;
}

function _proxy_jslib_proxy_decode(enc_URL) {
  enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/([a-m])|[n-z]/gi, function (s,p1) { return String.fromCharCode(s.charCodeAt(0)+(p1?13:-13)) }) ;
  enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/([\da-fA-F]{2})/g, function (s,p1) { return String.fromCharCode(eval('0x'+p1)) } ) ;
  enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/^([\w\+\.\-]+)\//, '$1://') ;
  return enc_URL ;
}


 

by: T-SnipezPosted on 2007-01-05 at 17:33:03ID: 18256228

Hello,

Thank you MUCH for responding!

I replaced the code with yours and I tried going to several websites, and this is the error that it spits out:

"CGIProxy Error
Couldn't find address for www.676s6s676p652r636s6q.com:"

This identical error pops up with ANY address one types in the box, so something must be going funky with the encryption and/or decryption.

Please feel free to actually visit the running script with your suggested changes @
http://tinyurl.com/y6kg8y

If there's anything I can do to assist with the prob, please don't hesitate to holler - with your help, I hope we'll find a way to get this workin'

Thanks again

 

by: ZvonkoPosted on 2007-01-05 at 17:43:13ID: 18256278

OK, reduce it please to this:


function _proxy_jslib_proxy_encode(URL) {
  URL= URL.replace(/^([\w\+\.\-]+)\:\/\//, '$1/') ;
  URL= URL.replace(/(.)/g, function (s,p1) { return p1.charCodeAt(0).toString(16) } ) ;
  return URL ;
}

function _proxy_jslib_proxy_decode(enc_URL) {
  enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/([\da-f]{2})/gi, function (s,p1) { return String.fromCharCode(eval('0x'+p1)) } ) ;
  enc_URL= enc_URL.replace(/^([\w\+\.\-]+)\//, '$1://') ;
  return enc_URL ;
}

 

by: T-SnipezPosted on 2007-01-05 at 17:54:25ID: 18256332

Hello again,

I copied and pasted your code and this is the error I'm getting now:

"CGIProxy Error
Couldn't find address for www.676f6f676c652e636f6d.com: "

So, there has been some change in the error with the new code but something still looks a skew.

Good luck, thanks for your help - appreciate it ;)

 

by: ZvonkoPosted on 2007-01-05 at 18:03:47ID: 18256377

Wait a moment, the browser script allone has to code and decode the url before sent to CGI and when received back from CGI, but the CGI itself needs also to know what decoding to do on encoded URLs to be able to fetch them. Do you see what CGI is doing the URL decoding before proxying on server side?

 

by: T-SnipezPosted on 2007-01-05 at 18:30:35ID: 18256526

Howdy again,

Sorry for the trouble - I think I may have found something related in the script.

This is what the original author commented in the script before the code below that I found (which appears to be what the CGI script is doing):

[quote]
IMPORTANT: If you modify these routines, and if $PROXIFY_SCRIPTS is set
#   below (on by default), then you MUST modify $ENCODE_DECODE_BLOCK_IN_JS
#   below!!  (You'll need to write corresponding routines in JavaScript to do
#   the same as these routines in Perl, used when proxifying JavaScript.)
[/quote]

The following was on lines 385-401 in the original script:
*************************
sub proxy_encode {
    my($URL)= @_ ;
    $URL=~ s#^([\w+.-]+)://#$1/# ;                 # http://xxx -> http/xxx
#    $URL=~ s/(.)/ sprintf('%02x',ord($1)) /ge ;   # each char -> 2-hex
#    $URL=~ tr/a-zA-Z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/ ;              # rot-13

    return $URL ;
}

sub proxy_decode {
    my($enc_URL)= @_ ;

#    $enc_URL=~ tr/a-zA-Z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/ ;        # rot-13
#    $enc_URL=~ s/([\da-fA-F]{2})/ sprintf("%c",hex($1)) /ge ;
    $enc_URL=~ s#^([\w+.-]+)/#$1://# ;           # http/xxx -> http://xxx
    return $enc_URL ;
}
*************************

I hope that helps - I'm not sure if its the right thing because I've modified the code above to encrypt the actual URL in the Address Bar of the browser, and its worked fine without any of the url input encryption.  However, now that I think about it - the url in the address bar is the same as the request, and if it can't decrypt the request, we're SOL anyways...

Anywho, thanks for spottin' that and I apologize for not seeing it before - hope that helps!

Thank you again!

 

by: ZvonkoPosted on 2007-01-06 at 15:43:44ID: 18259871

OK, then you need BOTH sides to do the SAME encryption/decryption logic.
That mean, you have to uncomment the ORIGINAL javascript encoding and decoding lines, AND uncomment also the corresponding CGI lines.
So this JavaScript line from encode() function:
//    URL= URL.replace(/(.)/g, function (s,p1) { return p1.charCodeAt(0).toString(16) } ) ;

Has this CGI line in proxy_decode:
#    $enc_URL=~ s/([\da-fA-F]{2})/ sprintf("%c",hex($1)) /ge ;


And the other way round.
That mean, uncomment JavaScript and CGI and give it a try.

 

by: T-SnipezPosted on 2007-01-06 at 18:51:14ID: 18260411

Zvonko - Thank YOU!

I tried your suggestions, and everything is now well!  Without your help, I fear that this would have never been solved - so thank you much!  I've awarded you your well deserved points ;)

I may want to modify this script slightly for some minor redirection, but will make another question and would be thrilled if I had your assistance!  Thanks again and keep up the great work!

T-Snipez

 

by: ZvonkoPosted on 2007-01-06 at 21:28:56ID: 18260989

Oh! you are welcome :)

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