How to Hide Username and Password in URL When calling a Report from Form

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Hi,

Hi,

I want to hide the URL or Username and password in web.show_document.
While accessing report through form any end user can see the Username and Password in URL.
I need to hide the credentials.

SQL

DECLARE
	VPASSWORD  VARCHAR2(30);
BEGIN
	
Declare
v_show_document	VARCHAR2 (2000) := '/reports/rwservlet?';
v_connect	VARCHAR2 (200)  := 'userid=scott/tiger@test1';
v_report_server	VARCHAR2 (50)   := 'rep_tbanner';
v_report_name	VARCHAR2(100)   := '/u01/banner/inb/TEST/reports/rdf/GSTEST.rdf';
v_format	VARCHAR2(12)    := 'HTMLCSS';
   begin
	v_show_document := v_show_document
                           || v_connect
			   -- Report server
			   || '&server='
			   || v_report_server
			   -- Report name
			   || '&report='||v_report_name
			   -- Reports parameters
			   || '&destype=CACHE'
		           || '&desformat='||v_format
			   || '¶mform=no'
		           || '&ID='||:KEY_ID;
				         
	web.show_document(v_show_document);
	end;

END;

Please help.

Thanks & Regards,
Samir

Posted 21-Jul-13 23:57pm

samir2013

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Keith Barrow 22-Jul-13 6:19am

I'm not an expert on Oracle, but I do have a few, more general comments.

Firstly: It is a bad idea from a security point of view to store your passwords in either plain text or so they can be unencrypted. *If you can*, consider using a hashing algorithm where the original password cannot be retrieved but can be tested against. (Google "password hash" and you'll get a fuller explanation of what I mean.

Secondly: Even if the URL is secured on the wire using https, passing sensitive information still isn't a good idea (for starters servers normally log incoming request URLs including the password in your case) see http://blog.httpwatch.com/2009/02/20/how-secure-are-query-strings-over-https/ for a better explaination.

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