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POSpam proof hit counter in Django
 

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    <p>I already looked at the most popular Django hit counter solutions and none of them seem to solve the issue of spamming the refresh button.</p> <p>Do I really have to log the IP of <strong>every visitor</strong> to keep them from artificially boosting page view counts by <em>spamming the refresh button</em> (or writing a quick and dirty script to do it for them)?</p> <h2>More information</h2> <p>So right now you can inflate your view count with the following few lines of Python code. Which is so little that you don't really need to write a script, you could just type it into an interactive session:</p> <pre><code>from urllib import urlopen num_of_times_to_hit_page = 100 url_of_the_page = "http://example.com" for x in range(num_of_times_to_hit_page): urlopen(url_of_the_page) </code></pre> <h2>Solution I'll probably use</h2> <p><del>To me, it's a pretty rough situation when you need to do a bunch of writes to the database on EVERY page view, but I guess it can't be helped. I'm going to implement IP logging due to several users artificially inflating their view count. It's not that they're bad people or even bad users.</del></p> <p><strong>See the answer about solving the problem with caching... I'm going to pursue that route first. Will update with results.</strong></p> <p>For what it's worth, it seems Stack Overflow is using cookies (I can't increment my own view count, but it increased when I visited the site in another browser.)</p> <p>I think that the benefit is just too much, and this sort of 'cheating' is just too easy right now.</p> <p>Thanks for the help everyone!</p>
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