On 6/18/2011 7:34 AM, mzagu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Folks,
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. I find it likely that there is no solution, in which case what
is the best solution for sending data to a remote server from a python
program and ensuring that it is from that program?
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?
You have not specified all the parameters of the problem. Are there a
limited number of copies of your program or are they distrubuted freely?
What about multiple votes from one program?
Corporate proxy votes (which are a legally important type of statistical
information) work as follows. Each shareholder is mailed or emailed a
'control number'. Attend stockholder meeting in person, mail proxy vote,
or login with any browser with control number. Repeat votes by the same
control id supercede previous vote. There should be a 'thank you for
voting' response for each vote. I suspect IP addr. is recorded with vote
too. I have not heard of specific problems with electronic proxy voting.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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