How to handle browser refresh and DB insert

[bforce]

Any ideas on how to accomplish the following:

I have a search page that inserts user's search terms into a database so I
can return "The Top Ten Searched for Companies Are". I want to prevent a
company from simply hitting the refresh button a hundred times and moving
themselves to the top of the list. I'm tracking IP addresses so I can
manually check but I'd like to programmaticaly minimize the ability to do
this. I thought of setting an initial value when the results page is hit for
the first time and then incrementing that value each time the page is
refreshed but I could not get it to work. Any ideas.

[jorgepino]

would you use cookies?

[bforce]

I think I'm actually going to do all my DB insert operations on a transfer
page that has a META REFRESH tag taking the user to the final results page.
A user could still back into the transfer page and add bogus records but I
doubt our target audience would go through the hassle or even know to do
that.




"bforce" <bforce@poultryegg.org> wrote in message
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> Any ideas on how to accomplish the following:
>
> I have a search page that inserts user's search terms into a database so I
> can return "The Top Ten Searched for Companies Are". I want to prevent a
> company from simply hitting the refresh button a hundred times and moving
> themselves to the top of the list. I'm tracking IP addresses so I can
> manually check but I'd like to programmaticaly minimize the ability to do
> this. I thought of setting an initial value when the results page is hit
> for the first time and then incrementing that value each time the page is
> refreshed but I could not get it to work. Any ideas.
>

[Stressed_Simon]

Don't use meta-refresh use cflocation.

[bforce]

Thanks for the clue. Works like a charm and when the user tries to back into
the transfer page they get the original search page instead.



"Stressed_Simon" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Don't use meta-refresh use cflocation.