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02-11-2009, 11:00 PM
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Will sort out the bugs today.
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02-13-2009, 05:01 PM
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Fixed most bugs. Yes, determining the correct value for a site is incredibly rough, but it's basically impossible.
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02-14-2009, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by textz
Love it, but also, you need to add the URL being checked in the end image. Otherwise people can just steal other website's codes and have a higher ranked image on their site.
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Right now the embed-able javascript links to the URL Rate page with whatever site it is, so that would be hard to do.
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02-14-2009, 11:30 AM
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He means that he could quite easily use the code
Code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://urlrate.com/embed/google.com "></script><br /><a href="http://urlrate.com/">yourname.com rated by URLRate.com</a>
And it would show a very high score for maybe a site that is not worth a score that high. However this could be avoided by just including the site name on the image.
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02-14-2009, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Immersion
He means that he could quite easily use the code
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://urlrate.com/embed/google.com "></script><br /><a href="http://urlrate.com/">yourname.com rated by URLRate.com</a>
And it would show a very high score for maybe a site that is not worth a score that high. However this could be avoided by just including the site name on the image.
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The actual javascript has a link in the code (not only the anchor text).
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02-14-2009, 02:46 PM
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No the point is for example (really isnt my argument) http://garymardell.co.uk/ i can now state url rate thinks my site is 10/10, well obviously it isnt :P And unless you were that pedantic and looked at the javascript in my page you wouldn't know otherwise. So the user could basically claim the sites value to be whatever they wish really.
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02-14-2009, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Immersion
No the point is for example (really isnt my argument) http://garymardell.co.uk/ i can now state url rate thinks my site is 10/10, well obviously it isnt :P And unless you were that pedantic and looked at the javascript in my page you wouldn't know otherwise. So the user could basically claim the sites value to be whatever they wish really.
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Ah I see what you mean. Adding a feature so if a user rolls over the image it'll link to google.com though, and not gary mardell
Anyways, if a user really wants to fake their ranking, they'll find a way no matter what.
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02-14-2009, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Sahil
Ah I see what you mean. Adding a feature so if a user rolls over the image it'll link to google.com though, and not gary mardell
Anyways, if a user really wants to fake their ranking, they'll find a way no matter what.
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Not if you insert the domain URL into a database, and use the ID:
http://urlrate.com/embed/1234.gif
Then they can't fake it, you can also check if the referrer address is the same as the URL for that ID, if it isn't you can return a "FAKE IMAGE" instead of the site rating. And instead of running all those queries again, insert the site value, rank, etc in the row instead of having to regenerate the image every time. Hell, you can even possibly save that image in /embed/images/1234.gif and just check if there is already an image for that site, and return that, and don't even do a database call.
Also: http://urlrate.com/index.php?url=htt...aweirdtld.this , you should check the tld before anything.
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02-15-2009, 01:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Garrett
Not if you insert the domain URL into a database, and use the ID:
http://urlrate.com/embed/1234.gif
Then they can't fake it, you can also check if the referrer address is the same as the URL for that ID, if it isn't you can return a "FAKE IMAGE" instead of the site rating. And instead of running all those queries again, insert the site value, rank, etc in the row instead of having to regenerate the image every time. Hell, you can even possibly save that image in /embed/images/1234.gif and just check if there is already an image for that site, and return that, and don't even do a database call.
Also: http://urlrate.com/index.php?url=htt...aweirdtld.this , you should check the tld before anything.
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They can easily copy and edit the image and then host it themselves. Anyways, if people fake their ranking it's their problem. We just get more more traffic so it's all good.
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02-15-2009, 02:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Sahil
They can easily copy and edit the image and then host it themselves. Anyways, if people fake their ranking it's their problem. We just get more more traffic so it's all good.
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That's something you can't stop, you just seem to be beating around a solution. I also secondly doubt someone is going to feel desperate enough to raise their ranking for this, so I don't see why you're too worried about making an image.
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