When a competitor started hammering a client's web site quotation system, we worked up some special pricing adjustments for anyone coming from their connection. No warnings, relocations to disney.com etc. We also built in a cookie-based usage limiter -- knowing full well those can be circumvented, but effective against cubicle-bound salesmen.
When they figured it out after about 6 months they... called in on the 800 number for verbal quotes. Forgetting of course about Caller ID. Hilarious conversations, those. Amusing anecdote, but if your competitors' IT staff is involved and they are not idiots you are going to waste a lot of time in your new job as a catherder. -------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Block Competitors from Web site Hello, Any have any other creative ideas on how to block competitors from gaining access to a Web site. My idea, which isn't fool proof is to try and find out what their network IP address is and write code in your site wide header to redirect or block traffic from a IP sub set, as long you know they company owns the IP sub set. I know the user could just log in fromo their home connection to open a TS session outside of their company. I want to make sure they are blocked from the company. Any other ideas? Thanks. D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
