[thelist] CFMX: IP Address Ban/Prevent

[John C Bullas]

At 13:26 22/02/2004, you wrote
>Hi All,
>
>I have a client who has several sites that allow users to interract in
>several different ways.  Part of the problem that they're having is that
>they do get a handful of inappropriate comments from a select group of
>people (trolls) and I'm trying to figure out the best way in CFMX to
>provide an IP address ban.

Cold Fusion on an apache platform or not? Assuming CF stands for that...(we 
can all learn)

could an <allow><deny> work in the background as a work around?

FB


>I would think that, since they collect IP addresses already, it should
>be fairly simple to add another table to the DB for IP addresses.
>However, I've not ever checked for an IP address on a page load
>(assuming it should be done in the Application.cfm) and then forced a
>redirect to a page that lets the user know what's happening.
>
>Has anyone ever worked with this sort of thing or does anyone have an
>example of how best to achieve this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Russ