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

Michael Hrivnak mhrivnak at hrivnak.org
Sat Jun 18 13:05:19 EDT 2011 
Authentication by client SSL certificate is best.

You should also look into restricting access on the server side by IP address.

Michael

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:34 AM, mzagursk at gmail.com <mzagursk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> 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.  I find it likely that there is no solution, in which case what
> is the best solution for sending data to a remote server from a python
> program and ensuring that it is from that program?
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks
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