PHP user-agent allowing to post on my site
Question by AlanPHP
I have a voting site that my users can use to promote my game. When they click the voting link, it passes a variable called ‘reference’ to the voting site. If it is a valid vote (in the past 24 hours) it will then send a request back to my site with two variables.
$reference = $_POST['referense'];
$success = $_POST['success']; // 0 or 1
I’ve read that the user-agent must be changed to allow them to post things to my site? How do I let them do this? It is a valid voting site, so there is no need to be scared.
Thanks.
Answer by Starx
What you read is completely wrong.
User agents have nothing to do with. how a PHP code performs. And even if it does, IT SHOULDN’T
You said that a reference is passed to the site, which is then sent to the voting system. So, your system should only check if the reference coming is a valid one or NOT. Not how the request is coming.
NOTE that, User Agents can be spoofed so easily. So, creating a system relying on such is very risky.
