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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 17:38:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Dan Boger wrote:
> 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.

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 around the limitation.

--Travis



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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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