Using Encryption

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	Adding automatic encryption to html++ applications is easy. To do so, just instantiate any Coder-derived object representing the algorithm to use, then pass a pointer to that object to the htmlServer::Crypt() base-class method. If automatic decryption is also required, the Crypt() method should be used before the htmlServer object is initialized.
	The following example illustrates the technique:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <dcmicro/htmlpp/htmlpp.h>
	int main( void )
	{
	htmlPage       page ;
	ScrambleCoder  coder( "mypassword" ) ;
	htmlCgi        server ;
	//  Manually initialize the server object so that we
	//  can specify the encryption. This also enables
	//  automatic decryption as well.
	server.Crypt( &coder ) ;
	server.Initialize( cin ) ;
	htmlForm   form( "/cgi-bin/formcrypt" );
	form << htmlInputHidden( "creditcard",
	"1234567890" ) ;  // this part gets encrypted
	page << form ;
	//  Output the page containing the form, performing
	//  automatic encryption on any hidden fields.
	server << page ;
	return 0 ;
	}

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