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Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:14:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> > Could it be because I opened two tabs - one with each of the categories -
> > instead of working sequentially?
> 
> Yes that's exactly why.  The way postnuke does user authintication involves
> generating an authorization key.  [...]

Why do everyone want to force me to work sequentially?!? :-(

(the SAS booking system has even worse tasking errors)

I find it very hard to beleive that there is a real need to prevent me from
having multiple windows open on the same site.  As far as I can see, it is only
related to horrible coding.

> This prevents people from remotely calling the followon PHP function to
> process the form data without actually using the form (i.e. bot protection
> among other things).

And what do we need "bot protection" for?  It is already a "members only" page.

Play well,

Jacob
--
City X'ers truck (building instructions):
               http://lego.jacob-sparre.dk/CityXers/Ladvogn/



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  Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
 
(...) Not to mention that it's trivial to bypass it if you did want to use a bot. If we need to do bot protection, we can use a captcha (similar to the way we're protecting the full installer) when votes are actually submitted. But there's no reason (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
 
(...) Yes that's exactly why. The way postnuke does user authintication involves generating an authorization key. Everytime you open a form it generates an auth key and when you click submit it passes the key along with the other form data. This (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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