actually such a thing takes maybe 1 hour to do... rather simple grab ip when user makes the url (or when they request it) post it set the expiry time (time+6 seconds or what ever you chose and depending how you do it it might be best if you use the time thingy SMF uses more accurate), when the user requests again take the ip check the time and IP against the ones in your DB (using IP as reference) if its before the expiry then kill process stating what you want.

Note: to save precious time and space and crap set up a cron job or something that allows you to trim the expired IPs ever so often.

Advance: if continuously requesting too fast after 5 times Auto 1 hour ban (really not hard either simple $C+1 (C being count and starts at 1 upon first and only good for that duration))
Or could set up a new table strictly for IPs with a time length and ban anyone who has done X number of links with in a time frame.


i think all can be done with in 1-2 hours...

Quote from: gamerz300 on July 21, 2010, 07:53:16 PM

actually such a thing takes maybe 1 hour to do... rather simple grab ip when user makes the url (or when they request it) post it set the expiry time (time+6 seconds or what ever you chose and depending how you do it it might be best if you use the time thingy SMF uses more accurate), when the user requests again take the ip check the time and IP against the ones in your DB (using IP as reference) if its before the expiry then kill process stating what you want.

Note: to save precious time and space and crap set up a cron job or something that allows you to trim the expired IPs ever so often.

Advance: if continuously requesting too fast after 5 times Auto 1 hour ban (really not hard either simple $C+1 (C being count and starts at 1 upon first and only good for that duration))
Or could set up a new table strictly for IPs with a time length and ban anyone who has done X number of links with in a time frame.


i think all can be done with in 1-2 hours...

That's perhaps one of the smartest things I've ever heard you say! 

I motion that, that was a great mouthful and more than likely be somewhat of the way i work it

Quote from: mghq on July 21, 2010, 06:09:29 PM

Quote from: Brad on July 21, 2010, 04:25:19 PM

How could that possibly be abused... Its one of the most important features of a URL shortener.

Trust me, in one hour i had over 70,000 urls processed from one ip address which was making 5 per second.

At one point I tried making an encrypted and redundant data storage system using URL shorteners. I swear I didn't do that though.

Hahahah thats awesome

You know, this domain would probably be better as a shock-site (a la goatse.cx) of ex-es eating people.

now that you think of it it sounds like "EX-ate(8 ) ME" lol... which is cannibalism...

now that you think of it it sounds like "EX-ate(8 ) ME" lol... which is cannibalism...

It does, that's pretty funny.