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Old 01-02-2004, 11:30 AM  
rowan
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What can you do? Referers are not an accurate method of authentication. You would need some sort of secret system to generate unique keys between trades to solve this problem. With so many trade scripts around there will probably never be such a standard.

Something along similar lines... for several hours I had a single IP doing HEAD requests every few seconds with the referer URL being one of my trades. I have little doubt it was someone deliberately trying to fuck up his site - the trading scripts either auto disable him for a bad raw:unique ratio, or if they count prod on raws then his productivity falls so much that the trade hardly returns anything to him.
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