Oracle Ias 9i and Apache - How connected?

Question

Hi everybody,
here is my problem:
i need to know how Oracle Ias 9i communicates with the Apache integrated in itself. I have to understand if i can redirect the requests to the Ias 9i through another Apache instance than the integrated one. This other Apache is resident on another server. Can i manage the communication between this new Apache istance and my Oracle Ias 9i? Does exist something similar to the mod_jk (communication Apache-Tomcat) i can use to do that? Or maybe the only Apache who can answer is the one integrated in my Oracle Ias 9i?
Please, i'm in a big big hurry...
Thank you!!!
Matte

Answer 1

This is a database package that do the job:
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE Cryptit AS
   FUNCTION encrypt( Str VARCHAR2 ) RETURN RAW;
   FUNCTION decrypt( xCrypt VARCHAR2 ) RETURN VARCHAR2;
END Cryptit;
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY Cryptit AS
   crypt_raw RAW(2000);
   crypt_str VARCHAR(2000);
   FUNCTION encrypt( Str VARCHAR2 ) RETURN RAW AS
   l INTEGER := LENGTH(str);
   i INTEGER;
   padblock RAW(2000);
   Cle RAW(8) := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW('frankzap');
   BEGIN
      i := 8-MOD(l,8);
      padblock := utl_raw.cast_to_raw(str||RPAD(CHR(i),i,CHR(i)));
      dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.DESEncrypt(
               input     => padblock,
               KEY       => Cle,
               encrypted_data => crypt_raw );
      RETURN crypt_raw ;
   END;
   FUNCTION decrypt( xCrypt VARCHAR2 ) RETURN VARCHAR2 AS
   l NUMBER;
   Cle RAW(8) := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW('frankzap');
   crypt_raw RAW(2000) := utl_raw.cast_to_raw(utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(xCrypt)) ;
   BEGIN
      dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.DESDecrypt(
               input     => xCrypt,
               KEY       => Cle,
               decrypted_data => crypt_raw );
      crypt_str := utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(crypt_raw);
      l := LENGTH(crypt_str);
      crypt_str := RPAD(crypt_str,l-ASCII(SUBSTR(crypt_str,l)));
      RETURN crypt_str;
   END;
END Cryptit;
/You can call the encrypt() function to get the encrypted string and call the decrypt() function to get the unencrypted string.
Francois