Hello all :)

I am new O_O

I'm using a bare-bones CGI web form mailer, which is quite open to abuse in its current incarnation. I'd like to add a few lines to the script that will limit people to one submission once every $TIME. I'd perhaps like to limit the length of submissions, but that's less important -- I don't care so much if "War and Peace" is sent to me, just as long as it's not sent 10,000 times :)

Also, if I just limit the number of submissions, it's easier for me to understand (perl newbie).

Here is my junk: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;

my $query = new CGI;

print $query->header ( );

my $comments = $query->param("comments");

open ( MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t" );
print MAIL "To: melissa\@secretemail.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Form Submission\n\n";
print MAIL "$comments\n";
print MAIL "\n.\n";
close ( MAIL );

# barf out html message

print <<END_HTML;

<html>

<p>thanks! This is what you sent me:</p>

$comments

</html>

END_HTML

[download]


Thanks in advance!
--
m j teigen

In reply to Limit submissions over time? by deadbarnacle

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