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

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On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:34:55 -0700, mzagursk@gmail.com wrote:

> I am wondering what your strategies are for ensuring that data
> transmitted to a website via a python program is indeed from that
> program, and not from someone submitting POST data using some other
> means.

> Any remedy?

Supply the client with tamper-proof hardware containing a private key.

Either that, or just accept that it cannot be done. Compare the amount of
effort game developers put into trying to implement tamper-proofing in
software with how little success they've had.

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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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