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Posted by Shawn K. Quinn on 09/24/06 06:54
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from Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
in message <c3lNg.10022$qx7.979@reader1.news.jippii.net>
posted at 2006-09-11T22:03
> Well, I do have an ObHTML here:
> Given any normal www form or link that is claimed to constitute a
> contract when clicked on, based on stuff on the page where it resides,
> one can construct a link that leads to the same page and does not
> involve any kind of reference to any commitment or contract. (If the
> form uses POST method, you need either a little bit of JavaScript or a
> simple server-side piece of software.) So how could you prove that the
> user who enters the page has actually even seen your "click-through
> agreement"? Right, you don't.
There is a way, and I think a lot of sites do this: Make the contract
part of the form when submitted (using e.g. <textarea>), compare it
to the contract as it was sent out, and save all the logs. There still
may well be some hole in this I have not thought of, however.
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