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If your client will always log in from a given set of IP numbers you could 
restrict access to those IPs.


Gordon



At 10:25 19/07/2006, you wrote:
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>Hi all,
>
>I have a shop system that sends out orders to a shipping company. The shipping 
>company need to access a webpage that contains a confirmation note that 
>contains all the purchaser's shipping and order details. This webpage will be 
>accessed via a link from an email.
>
>They feel it will be too annoying (process-wise) to have a username/password 
>for this page and so the obvious problem is how do you stop jo public (or jo 
>hacker) from accessing someone else's personal info?
>
>I was thinking about using a hash of certain parts of the order (eg. 
>purchaser's email address/order number/time of order) in the query string to 
>authenticate the user. Any comments on how secure this is? Could a bot attack 
>this and come across a valid query string to access this data?
>
>Thanks, Damien
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