Have a look at the CGI variables
in particular CGI.HTTP_REFERER
This is the page before the current one - it should have your server details
in there, other wise discard.


On 5/9/07, Eric J. Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Curious question here.   If I think about this, if someone takes a form
> of ours for login, for example, and makes a local copy on their
> machine....and they set the post action to be the live server
> authenticate file....what is the best way to detect this and defeat it?
> Noone has ever gained access this way as of yet, but we are studying
> possibilities, and this seems to me to be an attack vector.
>
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>
> Any thoughts?    A check to see if the referrer was the domain
> name/login file name?   Or can that be spoofed as well then?
>
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> Thanks~!
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