Minor Website Surgery

No surprise there. Everything on the Internet is being hacked or probed to see if it can be hacked.

Above every blog entry is a little envelope. I put it there so you could easily email any entry you find interesting. It works pretty well.

Unfortunately, I suspect the program connected to the envelope is being hacked! No surprise there. Everything on the Internet is being hacked or probed to see if it can be hacked. It’s the way of the world (wide web).

Tonight, with two or three glitches along the way, I added a few lines to a separate file and locked it down, hopefully removing the ability of outside infiltrators to use the program. We’ll see.

If you do use this email feature, please let me know if it gives you any trouble? I think it’s working, but who can ever tell?

6 thoughts on “Minor Website Surgery”

  1. I tested it, it works fine, but I suspect the qualifier question can be gotten around easily. Now that captcha has been hacked, what I’m seeing sites use for a qualifier question is along the likes of “Is ice hot or cold?”, and that answer unlocks the script. I also know someone who switches out the qualifier question on a weekly basis.

  2. When i click I get taken to your oops.php page – both when logged in and when not logged in (if that matters)

  3. Yes – you found what I’d done. My fear was, some ‘robot’ was taking advantage of that script, so I made it necessary to use my website to ‘find’ it. Any use of spreadit not coming from my page is discarded to the oops page.

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