[wdvltalk] RE: Is there a form out there that doesn't use refers for security?

2003-06-06 Thread Van Der Westhuizen, Sonja
Hi Ali, If the form needs to be secure why don't you hide it behind a login session? If you want you can set a cookie to keep users logged in, if there's not tooo sensitive information. Downside is that users might browse with cookies off. I don't know if Im misanderstanding. :) Sonja

[wdvltalk] RE: Is there a form out there that doesn't use refers for security?

2003-06-06 Thread Alida Saxon
Hi Sonja, thanks for replying. I'm really not sure what to do with this. Cookies are possible but it's, as you mentioned, still something the visitor controls... which is where the problems are coming from to begin with. I'd like to avoid logins, especially since I've never set one up before and

[wdvltalk] RE: Is there a form out there that doesn't use refers for security?

2003-06-06 Thread Alida Saxon
Hi Sonja, thanks for looking at this. Here (I think) is the referer section, from Jack's Formail. I've used another form in ASP on a windows server that has a similar system, which of course Norton's Firewall slams into. I could just chop it out, but I hesitate since it's supposed to be in there

[wdvltalk] RE: Is there a form out there that doesn't use refers for security?

2003-06-06 Thread Amanda Birmingham
Hi, Ali, I don't know what your form is for, so I don't know how much trouble you want to go to. However, I have seen a lot of sites these days (like GoDaddy) using an image containing numbers on their forms. The user then has to type in the numbers into a textbox. Since automated tools

[wdvltalk] RE: Is there a form out there that doesn't use refers for security?

2003-06-06 Thread Alida Saxon
Hi Amanda, This website's just using forms for fairly simple stuff like user comments, questions and the like. It's just been a major pain in the rear dealing with Norton Firewall situation on this, and I don't know enough programming to come up with my alternate. I think I may just work around

[wdvltalk] RE: Is there a form out there that doesn't use refers for security?

2003-06-06 Thread Cheryl D. Wise
I've got news for you it isn't just Norton firewall users who get that message either. I'm on RoadRunner and use a router with nat translation as well as Zone Alarm and I've been seeing that message a fair bit lately. Find it annoying and patronize other sites instead of the ones that I get the