[a little OT in a general way...] This was sent to another list today and I am wondering what the answer might be...
> The following data was submitted from the Frequently Asked Questions > Form > > Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Telephone Number: <SPI>'</SPI> > Question: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I googled [EMAIL PROTECTED] and found that this person hit > other online forms on the web too. > > I was wondering if any of you have experienced this and is there a way > to prevent it from happening again? It brought down our server because > it couldn't handle so many mail requests. We checked the logs and this > person spoofed one of our own IP addresses. My thought is to add some simple field validity checking to the form-to-mail script. Not perfect, but would at least stop the mail (until the bad guy writes a cleverer script). But what about the submission process? How to stop someone from scripting 2,000+ form submissions? (If at all) -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer International University Bremen A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
