If there are no hostile users on the server, in the controller:

if local_request?
  do the action
else
  ignore or log hostile action
end


HTH,
  Jeffrey

Quoting Harold A. Gimenez <harold.gime...@gmail.com>:
> That's a great idea, until someone in the outside finds out about that
> path/resource. You're opening up too much and scriptkiddies can get
> happy attempting a DoS. Wondering if you handle that somehow (IP address
> check or something)?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Gutierrez <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
> Reply-to: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com
> To: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [Rails] Re: Schedule job in rails
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:55:27 +0100
> 
> 
> I use cron to schedule wget:
> 
>  wget http://localhost:3000/cron
> 
> cron_controller invokes your method

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