Re: Stopping multiple votes by IP
| From: | Nick Wilson | Date: | Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:54:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Stopping multiple votes by IP | ||
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* 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
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Nick Wilson // www.explodingnet.com
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