You can indeed make a form, but a "post" can also be tricked.

This thread shows some solutions about this, especially the GET with
some hashing mD5:

http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/76dfe9536d8a761e/2713f28a4995c203?lnk=gst&q=delete+get+method&rnum=10#2713f28a4995c203

On Jun 30, 5:25 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A newbie question, so sorry if this is easy.  I had a look through the
> forum and didn't see the answer.
>
> I have an area on my app where the user votes by clicking on an
> image.  Via AJAX, this updates a DIV with stats elsewhere on the
> page.  The link looks like this:
>
> http://domain.com/competitions/vote/27
>
> How do I prevent someone from voting by manually entering this URL?
> Should I change the voting area to a form?  I noticed there was a
> security component on the forum but some folks weren't happy with it.
>
> I'm sure everyone's had a similar situation in their app.  How did you
> go about securing it?
>
> Cheers,
> Wilson


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