Re: Protected ZIP file with password

On Feb 18, 2008 9:07 AM, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > On Sun, February 17, 2008 1:57 pm, Nick Stinemates wrote: > > Petrus Bastos wrote: > >> Hi Nick, > >> > >> Sorry, but I forgot to tell you that I can't use this exec > >> neither > >> system commands because they are disabled for security precautions. > >> So, Do > >> you have any other ideas on how can I do that? > > Sometimes, you can write a cron job that does what you want from the > shell, and that has less restrictions, since the php.ini file can be > specified/modified on the command line on the fly... > > Perhaps that would help you here... > > > And a potentially truly UGLY hack... > > I'm betting that the "password protection" of the zip file is just a > few different bytes in the header portion of a zip... > > So take an un-protected zip, and password-protect it, and then do a > "diff" and see what changed. > > Then take that "diff" output, and just paste it in as the front of the > other zip files... > > Might work. > > Might make hash of the zip files. > > Won't know til you try. > The RFC makes it sound so confusing. -- -Casey