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Old 03-05-2008, 01:45 PM  
ServerGenius
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Originally Posted by TheDoc View Post
You can't use referrer matching to credit webmasters if the cookie is jacked.. I could be sending through a redirect script on another domain (which I do), and not even close to all referrals show up.

And what u-Bob said, is correct.. This works and I have never seen an affiliate system that can stop or detect it if the Webmasters doesn't want them to.
We don't use refferer matching to credit webmasters. We compare cookie
data with the hash data we store serverside....this also includes referrer
info from when the cookie was set.

That said....what u-bob mention did get me thinking....and I'll have to further
investigate to be sure we're not vulnerable for such type of an attack. I can't
say we're not at this point.......so THANKS u-bob for the insight...I hadn't
thought of this myself yet....

I will get back on this with an answer on how we think to tackle this problem
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