From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-19T10:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Web issues

----- Original Message -----
From: " JamesBritt" <james@jamesbritt.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:23 PM
Subject: RE: Semi-OT: Web issues


(snippage)

> I think you need to add cookie handling to your script.  I'd be worried if
> anybody could just upload files to a URL without some sort of ID process
in
> place.  Besides, the HTML you showed doesn't contain any information about
> whose pictures are being uploaded, or where they should go, so I think
this
> is stored in cookies.

I should have realized that sooner. They have to identify
me somehow. Probably not by IP. Though I guess that's
theoretically possible.

Thanks for looking at this. Dossy seems to have
shown that it's all in the cookies, and apparently
there's no referrer interaction.

thanx*10**6,

Hal