Re: voting script
| From: | Chris Adams | Date: | Thu, 03 Aug 2000 18:30:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: voting script | ||
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> The only easy way to eliminate cheating is to log the ip-addresses :(
> This will create huge logs (Although I don't consider 15 bytes per users
much.
> With 100,000 users this will be 1.5 MB, but if you get that many visitors,
you
> will be able to afford this amount of webspace)
It's also only 4 bytes per visitor if you convert the IP address back to a
32-bit integer before storage. Each segment of an IP address is just a
single byte expanded to be human-readable (for certain values of human,
anyway).
Chris