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Angsuman Chakraborty

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Is IP Address Validation of Trackbacks Fraught With Dangers (Large False Positives)?

Posted: Feb 5, 2008 10:34 AM

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There is a trackback validator plugin which checks if the IP address of the trackbacking server is the same as the URL it is trackbacking for. Is this a valid check or will this result in losing many genuine trackbacks? This policy in general will work only when you are directly using the authoring interface [...]

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