Re: Stopping multiple votes by IP

From: Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:54:36 +0000
Subject: Re: Stopping multiple votes by IP
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * and then René Moonen declared.... > What then happens with users who are behind a firewall/proxy (probably > have non-routable IP addresses on theire LAN) and share one internet > connection. They all have the same remote IP address (routable IP > address of the firewall). > This would mean that only one user of that group can vote. Good point! > Other solution might be > - use cookies to store the vote on the client > - use login name / password to check votes Well, I had considered cookies, but what if an author just switches browser to vote for his own article? I like the idea of cookies regardless, I guess I shouldn't be over paranoid about it. It's unlikely that anyone would really want to go to all the trouble anyway. Cheers - -- Nick Wilson // www.explodingnet.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8/e3sHpvrrTa6L5oRAuiVAJoCnzJbu/Pg2sYY/z0JeyPRWoW2pQCfX+b8 zMEON0GiiPELQymdiCZYKD4= =krsl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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