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Thank Andrew, the password it's a good idea, that's all I need ;-)
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El lun, 10-03-2003 a las 21:09, Andrew Church escribió:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Hi!, the first of one thanks for ircservices, i'm very pleasured with</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>it. I'm using IRCservices with Unreal irc server with a java applet</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>client. I need to forbib connetions from other clients like mirc, etc. I</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>only want to allow conections from my java applet client. Is it</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>possible?=20</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> This is more of an IRC server issue; depending on how the applet is</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>designed, you should be able to configure your IRC server to, for example,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>only allow connections with a password and have your applet send that</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>password when connecting (though of course this is not very secure if</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>someone decides to e.g. monitor the network traffic). To do this with</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Services would require writing a module that sent CTCP VERSION (or some</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>other way to check whether the client is your applet or another program)</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>and killed users using a different client, and again this would still be</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>susceptible to users forging the CTCP VERSION reply.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> In general, there's no foolproof way to do what you're asking, but</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>either of the above methods will probably block 99.9% of users, which is</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>probably good enough.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> --Andrew Church</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> achurch@achurch.org</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> http://achurch.org/</FONT></FONT></I>
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