Okay, got it. Thank you. Yeah, I was wondering if IPs were not going to work...but didn't know that they were *that* unreliable.
How exactly would I implement the cookie option? I don't have any experience with cookies, aside from knowing that they are little files on the user's computer. Would I want to make a new cookie for each vote? Or would that clutter up the user's system in a bad way? In other words, can you point me in the right direction code-wise regarding these cookies? Also, for theoretical purposes, is there any other way at all to uniquely identify the user? I mean, do we as coders have access to logging the user's MAC address on the NIC, or something like that? Or to make it more secure I'd just have to make it with a log in and such. >The simplest way to do this is through a cookie. You can't lock down an >IP as this is something that may not be unique to them. (e.g. AOL) > >If they block cookies don't let them vote. If they vote, clear cookies, >vote again, so be it. > >If you want to prevent that, ask them to login/register (with email >confirm) but expect a far lower voting numbers (but better quality). > >You just cannot rely on an IP though. You can have the situation that >the IP number changes between voting page display and actual vote being >submitted. > >Adam > >George Linderman wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:300063 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
