Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/24/07 15:29

Dan wrote:
> Thanks for all the help all!
>
> Yeah the users are anonymous when submitting information so there
> really is no way to keep track of them, as there are no usernames and
> passwords to go around.
>
> I was toying with the idea of maybe creating a buffer of submissions,
> with their IP address, and maybe checking the buffer every 5 seconds
> or so and seeing if there was an inordinate amount of submissions from
> the same IP address. I'd then flush the buffer and process the
> requests if there was no bad juju detected. This is out of my league
> at the moment though, and wouldn't really solve the problem of proxy
> servers, or say if a botnet decided to focus it's attention on my
> amateurish website. :P
>
> But once again thanks for the help! :D
>

And also not accurate. A person may come from different IP addresses on
different requests (i.e. a round-robin proxy). AOL does this, for
instance. Or you might have 1000 users behind one corporate proxy and
all using the same IP address.

If you want to control submissions, you can use cookies, but that's not
foolproof. If you need to prevent it, you'll need userid's and passwords.

Which you will probably need anyway, or you will be deluged with spammers.

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