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GiuseppeMacri
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6 years ago

Replace record ID with other RNG based field for URL hacking

Hi, The long and short of it is, i'd like to obfusticate the RID portion of a URL for an edit record with something a little more random.  The purpose is to stop random searching of records via ...
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QuickBaseJunkie
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6 years ago
Hi GMarci!

You may have already answered your own question, but I had a client with a similar need when exposing their application to EOTI. Along with generating a random 'key' number for them to use to resume progress on their record I also obfuscated the RID by converting it to the r=format that uses numbers and letters through the use of the formula function QB32Encode.

So where you may have a URL formula such as:

URLRoot() & "db/" & [_dbid_table] & "?a=dr&rid=" & [Record ID#]
with a result of https://<name>.quickbase.com/db/<dbid>?a=dr&rid=1

The new URL fomula would be as follows: 

URLRoot() & "db/" & [_dbid_table] & "?a=dr&r=" & QB32Encode( [Record ID#])
with a result of https://<name>.quickbase.com/db/<dbid>?a=dr&r=b


This type of encoding is much harder to break as it is not incremental.

Let me know if this was helpful 👍
–Sharon



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  • GiuseppeMacri's avatar
    GiuseppeMacri
    Qrew Captain
    6 years ago

    Thats awesome, that's pretty much what iw as looking for.

     

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    ------Original Message------

    Hi GMarci!

    You may have already answered your own question, but I had a client with a similar need when exposing their application to EOTI. Along with generating a random 'key' number for them to use to resume progress on their record I also obfuscated the RID by converting it to the r=format that uses numbers and letters through the use of the formula function QB32Encode.

    So where you may have a URL formula such as:

    URLRoot() & "db/" & [_dbid_table] & "?a=dr&rid=" & [Record ID#]
    with a result of https://<name>.quickbase.com/db/<dbid>?a=dr&rid=1

    The new URL fomula would be as follows: 

    URLRoot() & "db/" & [_dbid_table] & "?a=dr&r=" & QB32Encode( [Record ID#])
    with a result of https://<name>.quickbase.com/db/<dbid>?a=dr&r=b


    This type of encoding is much harder to break as it is not incremental.

    Let me know if this was helpful 👍
    –Sharon



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    Sharon Faust (QuickBaseJunkie.com)
    Founder, Quick Base Junkie
    https://quickbasejunkie.com
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