How about doing the link as a form submission rather than a hyperlink. Then
you can also pass form variables that authenticate that it is from the site
and not someone spoofing the submission.
Eric
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That's an interesting idea Eric, and considerably simpler to set up.
Thanks for the feedback.
Will
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From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 17 July 2008 13:01
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Subject: RE: Interesting issue with competition
How about doing the link as a form
You could also inspect the referer on the action page and only accept
responses that came from the prevoius page.
Again not foolproof, but 99% of average Joes are not going to bother
spoofing the referer.
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You could also inspect the referer on the action page and only accept
responses that came from the prevoius page.
Again not foolproof, but 99% of average Joes are not going to bother
spoofing
So what's the purpose of restricting the time? Is it because the competition
is only valid at that time? Would a valid customer not do the competition
outside of that timeframe?
I would say you should give each sent out email a encoded serial number in the
URL and record when that user's
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So what's the purpose of restricting the time? Is it because the
competition is only valid at that time? Would a valid customer not do the
competition outside of that timeframe?
I would say you should
well...yeabut that wouldn't be maintainable unless you want to keep adding
on url's to your blacklist.
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Indeed. As a quick and dirty fix though it's got to be the easiest way. And
checking their logfiles, most of the traffic is coming from two domains.
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From: Yuliang Ruan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 17 July 2008 15:48
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Interesting issue
Will Swain wrote:
Indeed. As a quick and dirty fix though it's got to be the easiest way. And
checking their logfiles, most of the traffic is coming from two domains.
But why try and keep an ever increasing list of domains that it can not
come from rather then just confirm that it comes from
Got ya. That may fit with their scenario.
Thanks guys.
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From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 17 July 2008 16:01
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Interesting issue with competition
Will Swain wrote:
Indeed. As a quick and dirty fix though it's got
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