Re: blocking naughty referrers

Hopefully you're not using the "naughty referers" idea for anything more than VERY rudimentary security. As Merlin points out it's spoofable and will flame out with all proxied users.

Actually, re-reading your post it almost sounds like something your doing as a prank or a "revenge" thing. Is that true?

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Re: Re: blocking naughty referrers by mishko (Initiate) on May 15, 2001 at 05:06 UTC
yah i know it's not fool-proof so i'm prepared for people to slip by. i'm not doing anything sneaky-prank-y (although i'd be the first to spill the details if i were), i'm just trying to weed out some dumb people. it sounds awful trivial but to TRY and simplify... there's a person who is linking to my page and not on the most polite of terms. i'm tired of the negative comments i'm receiving because of this person and rather than continue the drama i'd like to use this approach. eh.	[reply]

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Re: Re: blocking naughty referrers
by mishko (Initiate) on May 15, 2001 at 05:06 UTC

yah i know it's not fool-proof so i'm prepared for people to slip by. i'm not doing anything sneaky-prank-y (although i'd be the first to spill the details if i were), i'm just trying to weed out some dumb people. it sounds awful trivial but to TRY and simplify... there's a person who is linking to my page and not on the most polite of terms. i'm tired of the negative comments i'm receiving because of this person and rather than continue the drama i'd like to use this approach. eh.

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