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Re: MOTM / SOTM Voting For December Is Now Open
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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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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