So I wanted a nifty “Now Playing” box on the side of my blog, but I wanted to do it securely.

I found a WinAmp plug-in called Do-Something which looked promising, at the start of any new song it would do any (or any chain) of several actions. Most notable to me was submit a URL. The idea was simple enough, submit a url with the artist and song name (these it gets from the file tag), and a shared password, to a CGI script on the web server. The CGI would then update some file used in a SSI by the page, and poof, “Now Playing” would be up and running. Unfortunately, this simple method is not very secure…

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