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Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:21:26 GMT
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:14:28AM +0000, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > 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.

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 (imo) to disallow multiple windows.

Dan

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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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  Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
 
(...) While I agree with both of you, we should keep in mind that Orion said that this is a postnuke problem. Since the whole site is done with postnuke, I don't think there's much he can do about it, unless there's some postnuke option to work (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
  Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
 
(...) I'm hesitant to use a captcha since it's just one more step in a process that's supposed to be quick and easy (i.e. it makes since to us webheads but the general user will see it as a pain-in-the-rear). I do however agree that a permissions (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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