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

[Tim Roberts]

"mzagursk at gmail.com" <mzagursk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>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?

The amount of protection you need to take depends on what the cost of
interference will be, and how likely it is to be spoofed.  How will people
find out about your interface?  If they found out about it, what would they
gain by spoofing it?
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.