RE: [cobalt-users] How to stop form spamming!

["Dan Kriwitsky" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a site that allows people to submit a form and it posts their site
> information for me to review and add their site to my site.  Well
> somehow (I
> think with cgi) someone is posting hundreds of hundreds of links without
> touching my pages.  I have it logging all environment variables when it is
> submitted but I can't tell the difference between one of this spammed
> submissions and a good one.  I know it is a script because the
> stats program
> is not counting any hits for all these submissions.
>
> How can I stop this?
>

I don't think this is really specific to Cobalt.

You need to at the very least do some referrer checking similar to the way
FormMail.pl from http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ does so that it will
only work if posted via your site. You might also want to check the archives
to see about banning that person's IP address.

I'd recommend one of the Usenet CGI newsgroups for this.
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Dan Kriwitsky