Why am I asked to "enter the number above"

knockout artist · Post by **knockout artist** » 16 Mar 2004, 14:30

Why am I asked this when checking a name?

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 16 Mar 2004, 14:32

knockout artist wrote:Why am I asked this when checking a name?

i am having the same problems

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 16 Mar 2004, 14:44

Yeah, me too. John Shep must be experimenting again.

REAL_DEAL · Post by **REAL_DEAL** » 16 Mar 2004, 14:44

bennie wrote:Yeah, me too. John Shep must be experimenting again.

can we have the grovvy colours back, like last time

Priff · Post by **Priff** » 17 Mar 2004, 06:50

<< boring explanation from a Internet Developer >>

Boxrec search engine uses "get requests".
So when you perform a boxer's name search, you notice gunk like this in the URL bar:

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_select.php? ... n&status=A

What it means is I could set up my own rival site,
set up my own search utility, and as long as I format the request correctly, could use the Boxrec search engine to extract results. (You can quite easily see how the request is built up, even if you know nothing about computers).

To stop this, you can ask people to enter "the number above" which you print on YOUR website only.
You then make sure you only perform the search if the "number above" is suppied.
The parasite site doesn't have acces to this number, so can't use your search engine anymore.
It's pretty standard practice.

steve689 · Post by **steve689** » 17 Mar 2004, 18:41

I am also getting the same problem on my main AOL box but when i open a seperate Internet Explorer box there is no problem it goes through as normal. Seems similar to the problem many had with posting, just open a seperate explorer box and all is well....this seems to be the key to all lifes problems

Why am I asked to "enter the number above"

Why am I asked to "enter the number above"

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