How to determine if a request originated from a link click , or otherwise
( such as pasting the url the browser ).
This would seem to work ...
if (Request.Url.Ho st == Request.UrlRefe rrer.Host)
{
But what if Request.UrlRefe rrer == null ... ?
Any other ideas ?
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"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-comwrote in message
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How to determine if a request originated from a link click , or otherwise
( such as pasting the url the browser ).
This would seem to work ...
if (Request.Url.Ho st == Request.UrlRefe rrer.Host)
{
But what if Request.UrlRefe rrer == null ... ?
Request.UrlRefe rrer, aka Request.ServerV ariables["HTTP_REFER ER"] cannot be
relied upon at all... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...reliable&meta=
Just like the IP address, it is so easy to spoof it
( http://www.datatrendsoftware.com/spoof.html), to the extent where the best
advice I can give you is simply not to try. Think about why you *REALLY*
need to know this information, and then work around it...
Hmmm ...
Ok. Well, for sites with a tracking page that writes some tracking data to
db and then redirects to the target url, what are other solutions to stop
hackers from manipulating the tracking data ?
"Mark Rae" <ma**@markNOSPA Mrae.comwrote in message
news:ur******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP03.phx.gbl...
"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-comwrote in message
news:OH******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
>How to determine if a request originated from a link click , or otherwise
( such as pasting the url the browser ).
This would seem to work ...
if (Request.Url.Ho st == Request.UrlRefe rrer.Host)
{
But what if Request.UrlRefe rrer == null ... ?
Request.UrlRefe rrer, aka Request.ServerV ariables["HTTP_REFER ER"] cannot be
relied upon at all...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...reliable&meta=
Just like the IP address, it is so easy to spoof it
(http://www.datatrendsoftware.com/spoof.html), to the extent where the
best advice I can give you is simply not to try. Think about why you
*REALLY* need to know this information, and then work around it...
"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-comwrote in message
news:eG******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP04.phx.gbl...
Ok. Well, for sites with a tracking page that writes some tracking data to
db and then redirects to the target url,
LOL! All that tells them is that the target URL has come from the tracking
page! The initial request to the tracking page could have come from
anywhere - don't you get it?
what are other solutions to stop hackers from manipulating the tracking
data ?
None that I know of, and this is another of those occasions where I would
dearly *love* to be proven wrong...
I've seen all sorts of "smoke and mirrors" solutions involving encrypted
querystrings and God knows what - none of them works...
Guess I'm not as cynical as you.
I do see a couple moves in the right direction :
1. checking Request.UrlRefe rrer.Host against Request.Url.Hos t at least
prevents against the simple hack of copy/pasting a url from a link button
into a brower.
2. hashing the track click url and tacking it onto the end as an additional
param and on link click re-constructing the hash server-side and comparing
to the link's hash would prevent against automated software that sent
endless tracking requests with small variations
"Mark Rae" <ma**@markNOSPA Mrae.comwrote in message
news:u8******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-comwrote in message
news:eG******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP04.phx.gbl...
>Ok. Well, for sites with a tracking page that writes some tracking data
to db and then redirects to the target url,
LOL! All that tells them is that the target URL has come from the tracking
page! The initial request to the tracking page could have come from
anywhere - don't you get it?
>what are other solutions to stop hackers from manipulating the tracking
data ?
None that I know of, and this is another of those occasions where I would
dearly *love* to be proven wrong...
I've seen all sorts of "smoke and mirrors" solutions involving encrypted
querystrings and God knows what - none of them works...
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