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

["Brian Paulson" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad,

	What are you using to process your posts php,perl,asp?

My suggestion would to not let it post unless the page that it is coming
from is the one on your site with the form.

php example(its what I use)

<?
$page = $HTTP_REFFERER;

if($page == "form_page.htm)
   {
	process the form
   }
  else
   {
   tell the user sorry you need to go to my site to post information
   }

?>

Hope that helps

Thank you
Brian Paulson
Sr. Web Developer
1-800-279-6397 X207
bpaulson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Casselman, Chad
>Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 8:30 AM
>To: 'cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>Subject: [cobalt-users] How to stop form spamming!
>
>
>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?
>
>Please help me stop this spamming,
>chad
>
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