My thoughts are that you need a non-technological solution to this problem. Anyone can spoof an IP address, go to your site from another domain, or falsify their credentials to gain access to your information.
So an IP-based solution probably will not help - you probably don't know who all of your competitors are. What you may have to do is take a look at the content on the site and make some decisions about what data / content / other stuff should be open to the public, and what should be protected. Make users call you in order to gain access, and feel them out. This will give you a chance to know your customers as well as weed out the competition. If you have no staff to handle this kind of operation, you can consider some sort of registration / login system, but remember: computers still can't do a lot of things, the top of the list is discriminate between users based on ambiguous qualities such as the name of a company. M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:09 PM 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 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
