On 1/29/07, Joseph Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Guys,
I know that HTTP_REFERER is not always accurate or even set. There
are also ways for people to fake that value. I tend not to rely on
that much however what i need to do is this.
We have a file called spy.php that will return data to the browser if
the sitekey is found in our database. This data is to be used by
members so they can show statistics on their site. However to be sure
that it was the correct sitekey i was also checking the referer domain
against the domain stored in the database. Is there a better way to
do this? I do not want someone to be able to display the stats for
another site on theirs.
Is there a way to do this or should i just base it on the sitekey and
if it is valid return the stats for that particular site. The sitekey
is an md5 hash.
It's rare for a browser to send broken referers, but yeah, there's
nothing to stop another server from calling spy.php with a spoofed
referer and then doing whatever with the result. You might try to
notice if the same client IP makes a number of requests using
different sitekeys...
There probably isn't much you can do that would be worth the time it
took to implement. After all, even with perfect security on the
script, the numbers are still out there in public, ready to be
copy-and-pasted into a spreadsheet every morning.
--
Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/
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