You are right. But with the enhancement I described, the user actually
needs a (different) cookie to be set in order to be able to vote. For
us, it is more about raising some barriers to make misuse a bit less
trivial and more tedious.

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Rob van Maris
> Verzonden: woensdag 31 maart 2004 16:06
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: Script kiddies and the MMBase poll
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> 
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Reitsma
> > Sent: woensdag 31 maart 2004 15:43
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Script kiddies and the MMBase poll
> > 
> > The impossibility of building a watertight accept cookie
> > detection lies in the impossibility to place a cookie on the 
> > response and detect this cookie during the same request 
> > (there is no such method like response.getCookie(), cookies 
> > have to land on the browser first :).
> 
> It's not just that. The user can always clear the cookies 
> after voting, so a cookie-based policy is always easy to tamper with.
> 
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