in reply to blocking naughty referrers

Be aware that any scheme involving REFERER can be subverted, as it is an unverified header given by the browser. Programs using LWP as a Perl client can set arbitrary referers for each request, for example.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: blocking naughty referrers
by Rhandom (Curate) on May 14, 2001 at 19:19 UTC
    However, you can use $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} (the ip of the connecting client). This cannot be spoofed (although they could go and use a proxy).

    my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];
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