RE: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider

date posted 4th September 2006 20:21

< Do you still find that code useful? On the nms project we find that so
many personal firewalls now strip the HTTP_REFERER header that it's
usually pointless to check it.>

I guess it's impossible to answer until a spammer abuses one of my forms.
The only thing I can say is that none of my sites have been used to send out
spam AFAIK since using it.

kind regards
Paul Bryant

http://webdesignSME.co.uk




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Dave Cross
Sent: 04 September 2006 20:21
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: mobile phone service provider


Paul Bryant wrote:

> //check referring URL
> else {
> $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
> $this_url = "http://wildlifebreaks.co.uk/form.php" ||
> "http://wildlifebreaks.co.uk/form.php";
> if ($referer != $this_url) {
> echo "You do not have permission to use this script from another
> URL";
> exit;
> }

Do you still find that code useful? On the nms project we find that so
many personal firewalls now strip the HTTP_REFERER header that it's
usually pointless to check it.

Dave...

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