> Thank's for telling me, now I can go delete all your votes! ;) Yeah, Wouldn't want to compensate for all the loaded votes and even anything out... Given that... maybe you should just delete ALL votes now ;-)
To cut down the multiple votes as much as possible you would need to have user accounts (verified by email) and only those users can vote. When they do, store their USERID with their vote and check for their ID when they do vote to make sure it hasn't already voted... vote votedy vote vote. If someone wanted to vote again they would have to go through the whole sign up process again with a new email address, validate the account, then go vote... wash rinse repeat. But at least then if someone wanted to stack the vote on a "which browser is better" poll, they would only get 2 or three votes in every half hour or so rather than 1 every 5 seconds by clearing their cookies and/or renewing their IP address. If that's too much work for a browser war poll (I'd have to say that it is) then just store the IP address with the vote and check for those. That would take care of the majority of any multiple votes and slow the rest way down. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:13 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats) > I just voted for Mozilla and IE but I used FF to do it since > it lets me > clear cookies fast and easy :) Thank's for telling me, now I can go delete all your votes! ;) By the way, does anybody know of a better way to stop people from doing what you just did, better than requiring cookies to be enabled and then setting/checking a cookie? I've brain stormed this for a long time and can't think of a good way to do it. Like most security solutions, my process keeps the lazy people from cheating, but it's possible to get around it. ------------------- This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. A1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228852 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
