diff -r 621301c1cb63 -r 2bd3530c30af programs/Application3.scala
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/programs/Application3.scala	Fri Sep 28 15:18:44 2012 +0100
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+package controllers
+
+import play.api._
+import play.api.mvc._
+import play.api.data._
+import play.api.data.Forms._
+import java.security.MessageDigest
+
+/*
+ * Application sets a cookie in plain ASCII on the
+ * clients browser recording the visits of a page.
+ *
+ * The cookie data is hashed ans stored in the format:
+ *
+ * visits_counter/hashed_value 
+ */
+
+object Application extends Controller {
+
+  //hash functions: SHA-1, SHA-256, etc
+  def mk_hash(s: String) : String = {
+    val hash_fun = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1")
+    hash_fun.digest(s.getBytes).map{ "%02x".format(_) }.mkString
+  }
+
+  //extracting from the string .../... the visits
+  //value and hash
+  def gt_cookie(c: Option[Cookie]) : Int = 
+    c.map(_.value.split("/")) match {
+      case Some(Array(s, h)) 
+        if (s.forall(_.isDigit) && mk_hash(s) == h) => s.toInt 
+      case _ => 0
+    }
+
+  def mk_cookie(i: Int) : Cookie = {
+    val s = i.toString
+    Cookie("visits", s + "/" + mk_hash(s))
+  }
+   
+  def index = Action { request =>
+
+    val visits_cookie = request.cookies.get("visits")
+    val visits = gt_cookie(visits_cookie)
+
+    val msg1 = "You are a valued customer who has visited this site %d times."
+    val msg2 = "You have visited this site %d times."
+    val msg = 
+      if (visits >= 10) msg1.format(visits) else msg2.format(visits)
+    
+    Ok(msg).as(HTML).withCookies(mk_cookie(visits + 1))
+  }     
+}
+
+
+
+