no, because you're passing it in the url, they can just copy the url (as they're currently doing) and the hashes will still match.
It seems to me that they're using a java applet running on the user's browser to do the scrapes and thus avoiding holding any sort of database holding your data on their servers. Insetad, all the data is on the user's machines. Not sure what you can do about that one. Quite clever, and because they're being paid to provide the software, then they're happy to update their scraping code when you change your format. > -----Original Message----- > From: Snake Hollywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 September 2003 10:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Stopping 'db scrapes' > > > OK then here is one for you. > > The page that hits the DB requires an encrypted variable on the URL. > E.G say somehting like, take the current date + some secret > word and run > a Hash() on it and pass this on the URL, then do it again on > the DB page > and compare it. > As this hashed value will change every day this should stop then > scraping your db page. > > > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
