Re: limiting downloads

At 1:51 PM +0200 6/10/06, Michelle Konzack wrote: >Hello *, > >I am on over 100 Mailinglists and want to make my archive (monthly >tarbals) public availlable. my problem is, that they are around >20 GByte compressed archives and I want to prevent peoples to suck >the whole archive at once... > >I was trying several things but failed. > >Does anyone have a code sniplet which limit clients to, e.g. four >downloads, per day? > >I think, I must use a database or something like this, because I >must track th IP, date, time, and the used download client... > >I think, downloads limiting by creating accounts with passwords >will not help since spamer can create Yahoo or Hotmail accounts >faster than you can stop it... > >Or should I pass the downloads via this nifty PIC/IMAGE verification, >where $USER must type in the numbers/letters created by a php script? > >Greetings > Michelle Konzack Michelle: If it was my problem, I would have people register and store their registration (logon and password) in a dB and require them to accept cookies. I think that would both slow-down and limit downloads. As for PIC/IMAGE thing it's called CAPTCHLA and that would help keep out spammers, but you would cut out the visually impaired. You might want to read this: http://www.access-matters.com/2005/05/22/quiz-115-did-a-captcha-catch-ya/ hth's tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com