On Jun 29, 10:33 am, Aneesh <aneeshvkulka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe the request object should contain the IP address regardless
> of whether the user has an account. You can store that IP with the
> vote like Vladimir mentioned.
You can't rely on just the IP. If you do then you will have problems
where large numbers of people sit behind a single IP, as will be case
where corporate firewall is used, or where proxies or other gateway or
NAT solution are used by ISPs.
Graham
> Here are the docs for HttpRequest
> objects:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#attributes
>
> On Jun 28, 4:38 pm, links_awakening <brianb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Actually, I was hoping specifically for an IP-based solution - one
> > which would not require users to create accounts on my site. I
> > appreciate your feedback though.
>
> > On Jun 28, 4:58 am, Vladimir Shulyak <nc0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Try django-votinghttp://code.google.com/p/django-votingifyouwant
> > > digg-like voting.
> > > This app stores all votes in database, so it prevents user to "vote
> > > up" multiple times.
>
> > > Alternatively, you can develop it yourself. It's pretty
> > > straightforward to implement imo. IP address comes with request object
> > > (don't forget to tweak your production server) so you can store it
> > > against voting id with datetime field.
>
> > > On Jun 28, 1:23 am, links_awakening <brianb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > If users can click "vote up" on my site, I want to prevent them from
> > > > clicking "vote up" multiple times. To do this, I would check whether
> > > > their IP has clicked "vote up" in the past 24 hours.
>
> > > > Thus, I am curious whether Django helps with this sort of problem, or
> > > > if anyone has solved this using Django already.
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