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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 01/18/07 21:57
Ken Sims wrote:
> Hi Sunny -
>
> On 18 Jan 2007 09:31:37 -0800, sachinmehta@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> yep thanks a bunch for the information, will check it out soon.
>
> If you create a redirector page as a couple of people have suggested,
> let me strongly recommend that you do not include the target URL in
> the link (use some other kind of identifier from which you look up the
> correct target URL), or if you do include the target URL, that you
> maintain a list of the valid targets and reject any others.
>
> If you have an "open" redirector that will accept any target URL and
> generate a redirect to it, eventually spammers will find it and will
> use it in their spams to redirect people to their websites through
> your website, in an effort to bypass spam detection. This is likely
> to result in complaints to you and/or your ISP, and/or get your
> website flagged as being as spam website.
>
Very *good* point here by Ken. Best to have some lookup table. Using a
lookup key that is numeric is easy to filter and difficult for spammers
to hack!
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Take care,
Jonathan
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