Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server.

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From	Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com>
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Subject	Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server.
Date	Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:37:49 -0700
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"mzagursk@gmail.com" <mzagursk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>For example, if I create a website that tracks some sort of
>statistical information and don't ensure that my program is the one
>that is uploading it, the statistics can be thrown off by people
>entering false POST data onto the data upload page.  Any remedy?

The amount of protection you need to take depends on what the cost of
interference will be, and how likely it is to be spoofed.  How will people
find out about your interface?  If they found out about it, what would they
gain by spoofing it?
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. "mzagursk@gmail.com" <mzagursk@gmail.com> - 2011-06-18 04:34 -0700
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Eden Kirin <eden@bicikl.> - 2011-06-18 14:32 +0200
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-06-18 13:05 -0400
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 03:26 +1000
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2011-06-18 12:37 -0700
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-06-18 16:40 -0400
    Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-19 12:38 +1200
      Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 10:54 +1000
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-18 14:03 -0700
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-18 17:17 -0400
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 09:12 +1000
  Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-19 05:47 +0100
    Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-19 12:03 +0000
      Re: Strategy to Verify Python Program is POST'ing to a web server. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-19 05:18 -0700

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