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Posted by Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on April 2, 2008, 6:05 pm
Please log in for more thread options Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> I am preparing a site where it is important that the user moves from
>>>> page 1 to page 2 to page 3 etc as a series of tests are presented and
>>>> the order is important.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to make sure that this happens?!
>>> No.
>>
>>> Make the all the same page and control the content server side, probably
>>> with a session.
Full ACK.
> [...]
> You store a cookie on the client side. Your server displays page one
> if the cookie is missing. Page one sets the cookie to show that page
> 1 has been seen. The "next" button just re-loads the page but now the
> server will show page 2. Rinse and repeat.
>
> If cookies are not acceptable, you can do this with form data.
Cookies are as susceptible to a forging attack as is form data.
http://getfirebug.com/ and see how easy it actually is.
PointedEars
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