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Including .JS file in ASP.NET for runat=server
Hi,
I'm doing my first ASP.NET integration with SecPay, (an online payment provider in the UK). I've done plenty of integrations in classic ASP but am now struggling to get the md5 check to work in ASP.NET.
I'm falling at the first hurdle of including the JS file. In classic ASP, the SCRIPT tag was as follows:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript" RUNAT="Server" SRC="includes\md5.js">
</SCRIPT>
But if I try and place this in my .aspx file in Visual Studio 2005, the </script> tag for my codebehind gets underlined in blue and the useful error message of "Syntax Error" gets displayed.
If I place my JS SCRIPT tag above my codebehind <script> tag, the Page Directive "<%@ Page Language="VB" ... " gets underlined with the error message 'Syntax Error'.
how do I include ths JS file so that I can call it's functions from my page load sub?
Help appreciated...
I'm doing my first ASP.NET integration with SecPay, (an online payment provider in the UK). I've done plenty of integrations in classic ASP but am now struggling to get the md5 check to work in ASP.NET.
I'm falling at the first hurdle of including the JS file. In classic ASP, the SCRIPT tag was as follows:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript" RUNAT="Server" SRC="includes\md5.js">
</SCRIPT>
But if I try and place this in my .aspx file in Visual Studio 2005, the </script> tag for my codebehind gets underlined in blue and the useful error message of "Syntax Error" gets displayed.
If I place my JS SCRIPT tag above my codebehind <script> tag, the Page Directive "<%@ Page Language="VB" ... " gets underlined with the error message 'Syntax Error'.
how do I include ths JS file so that I can call it's functions from my page load sub?
Help appreciated...
You should not add the script tag in your code behind. You should add it just like you would in ASP in the head section of your markup.
The JS include would not need the runat=server property.
<script language="jscript" type="text/jscript" src="includes\md5.js" />
Hi there,
Take a look at this
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479011.aspx
more
http://www.aspcode.net/Javascript-include-from-ASPNET-server-control.aspx
Take a look at this
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479011.aspx
more
http://www.aspcode.net/Javascript-include-from-ASPNET-server-control.aspx
ASKER
Guys thanks for replying. However, I think you're missing the point, (or maybe I am). The Javascript include file is to be accessed from server-side code so removig the runat="server" means that it becomes client-side script, does it not?
Like I said, the my PageLoad event needs to be able to call the function 'hex_md5' which is inside the .JS file. If I try and include the JS in the <HEAD> tag as suggested, I get, unsurprisingly, and error that states: "hex_md5 is not declared"
How do I get the Javascript file to be accessible to server-side ASP.NET code?
Like I said, the my PageLoad event needs to be able to call the function 'hex_md5' which is inside the .JS file. If I try and include the JS in the <HEAD> tag as suggested, I get, unsurprisingly, and error that states: "hex_md5 is not declared"
How do I get the Javascript file to be accessible to server-side ASP.NET code?
ohhhh....ok, what you need to do is add the link to the js file in the header like you normally would - no runat=server - it is client side script.
Then in your code behind you need to add a call to the client function like below. If you need to pass params to the function you can just build the full string hex_md5('some param') and put that in where I just call hex_md5().
Effectively this calls your client function onload.
Then in your code behind you need to add a call to the client function like below. If you need to pass params to the function you can just build the full string hex_md5('some param') and put that in where I just call hex_md5().
Effectively this calls your client function onload.
If Page.ClientScript.IsStartupScriptRegistered("md5") = False Then
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "md5","hex_md5()", True)
End If
ASKER
OK, sorry I think you're going to have to help me out here. It's looking promising... but how do I read the value of what's returned from hex_md5(md5string).
In classic ASP it would have been:
Dim sResult as String
sResult = hex_md5(md5string)
I'm sure I should be able to work this out but I can't :(
Many thanks for your help.
In classic ASP it would have been:
Dim sResult as String
sResult = hex_md5(md5string)
I'm sure I should be able to work this out but I can't :(
Many thanks for your help.
The easiest way, off the top of my head, is to create a hidden field in your form with runat=server. For your client script set it equal to MyHiddenField.Value = hex_md5(md5string).
Then server side you can access MyHiddenField to get the returned value.
Then server side you can access MyHiddenField to get the returned value.
ASKER
that's no good because the md5string contains a key which I can't have visible in a 'view source' as a value of a hidden field.
Bl**dy nightmare. I'm now thinking that the best way to do this is using the built in MD5CryptoServiceProvider in ASP.NET?
I started to build a test script but stumbled when I realised that I needed to compare a String with an array of Bytes. See, SecPay send a hash string with their payment response and I have to read that from the response object, then my own constructed string, (based on transactionID, amount and a private key), to the hash function that would then return a hash string which I could compare with the SecPay hash.
I can't work out how to get this hashed value back out of the .NET class as a String rather than a Byte array, (or how to compare the two).
Ahhhhhhh....
Bl**dy nightmare. I'm now thinking that the best way to do this is using the built in MD5CryptoServiceProvider in ASP.NET?
I started to build a test script but stumbled when I realised that I needed to compare a String with an array of Bytes. See, SecPay send a hash string with their payment response and I have to read that from the response object, then my own constructed string, (based on transactionID, amount and a private key), to the hash function that would then return a hash string which I could compare with the SecPay hash.
I can't work out how to get this hashed value back out of the .NET class as a String rather than a Byte array, (or how to compare the two).
Ahhhhhhh....
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What a hell-ride this has been. Many thanks to Microsoft for once again dumbfounding me with what seems like making a simple task, incredibly complicated. For those of you who may stumble upon this thread... here's what I had to do (where md5string is the unencrypted string that I have to check against and spHash is the md5 hash string sent from SecPay) :
'The string we wish to encrypt
Dim strPlainText As String = md5string
'The array of bytes that will contain the encrypted value of strPlainText
Dim hashedDataBytes As Byte()
'The encoder class used to convert strPlainText to an array of bytes
Dim encoder As New UTF8Encoding()
'Create an instance of the MD5CryptoServiceProvider class
Dim md5Hasher As New MD5CryptoServiceProvider()
'Call ComputeHash, passing in the plain-text string as an array of bytes
'The return value is the encrypted value, as an array of bytes
hashedDataBytes = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(enco
'now convert the crappy MS raw hash data to a string in readable format. Idiots!!
Dim strMD5 As String = ""
For Each bytByte As Byte In hashedDataBytes
strMD5 &= bytByte.ToString("x2")
Next
'check to see MD5 hash matches
If strMD5 <> spHash Then
Response.Write("Security Hash failed. IP stored.")
'do a server.transfer to hash_failed screen or whatever
End If
So, there you have it. I tried using the example on your link bcaff86 and whilst they worked as converters and returned a hex-based byte array, the byte array returned from MD5CryptoServiceProvider is in a raw format that is of no use to anybody!!!! Thanks for that Microsoft! I stumbled across that neat little Byte to Hex String converter here:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread373773.html
Many thanks for sticking with me bcaff86. Although you didn't have the final answer, you did get me a good deal of the way there so the points are yours.
'The string we wish to encrypt
Dim strPlainText As String = md5string
'The array of bytes that will contain the encrypted value of strPlainText
Dim hashedDataBytes As Byte()
'The encoder class used to convert strPlainText to an array of bytes
Dim encoder As New UTF8Encoding()
'Create an instance of the MD5CryptoServiceProvider class
Dim md5Hasher As New MD5CryptoServiceProvider()
'Call ComputeHash, passing in the plain-text string as an array of bytes
'The return value is the encrypted value, as an array of bytes
hashedDataBytes = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(enco
'now convert the crappy MS raw hash data to a string in readable format. Idiots!!
Dim strMD5 As String = ""
For Each bytByte As Byte In hashedDataBytes
strMD5 &= bytByte.ToString("x2")
Next
'check to see MD5 hash matches
If strMD5 <> spHash Then
Response.Write("Security Hash failed. IP stored.")
'do a server.transfer to hash_failed screen or whatever
End If
So, there you have it. I tried using the example on your link bcaff86 and whilst they worked as converters and returned a hex-based byte array, the byte array returned from MD5CryptoServiceProvider is in a raw format that is of no use to anybody!!!! Thanks for that Microsoft! I stumbled across that neat little Byte to Hex String converter here:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread373773.html
Many thanks for sticking with me bcaff86. Although you didn't have the final answer, you did get me a good deal of the way there so the points are yours.