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

Nobody nobody at nowhere.com
Sun Jun 19 00:47:30 EDT 2011


On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:34:55 -0700, mzagursk at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

> Any remedy?

Supply the client with tamper-proof hardware containing a private key.

Either that, or just accept that it cannot be done. Compare the amount of
effort game developers put into trying to implement tamper-proofing in
software with how little success they've had.




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