Tag: Spam

Scalability

WordPress style “Duplicate comment detected” using Memcached and PHP

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If you have a knack of leaving comments on blogs, chances are you might have experienced a wordpress error page saying “Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!“, probably because you were not sure that your comment was saved last time and you tried to re-post your comment. In this blog post, I will put up some sample PHP code for Duplicate comment detection using Memcached without touching the databases. Towards the end, I will also discuss how the script can be modified for usage in any environment including forums and social networking websites. Duplicate comment […]

PHP

Web Security : Using crumbs to protect your PHP API (Ajax) call from Cross-site request forgery (CSRF/XSRF) and other vulnerabilities

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Have your API calls ever being used directly by someone without your permission? If yes, read on to find out how can we protect our API’s from such spammers and hackers. Before we go ahead and see a possible solution for this, lets try to list out a few cases, when our API’s can be accessed without our permissions. Common cases of vulnerable API/Ajax calls Ajax calls having no user authentication: This is the first place where a spammer will try to find out a loop hole. Take this example, suppose I created a group chat plugin for my blog. […]