Preventing manipulation of input string

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ElArZ
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Preventing manipulation of input string

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Hi,

Let me explain the idea first:

There is a site that contains a lot of pages that have info in them which i need to extract.
I made an html code with 2 frames: the top one has the form and the send button, the other frame opens the site.

While members are browsing the site and come to a page that they wish to submit then they click the button, which retrieves the html of the site and sends it through the form to the php script which extracts the info and adds them to the database.

The problem is that people can fake the form, and send false info.

My question is: Is there a way to make sure that the data being entered is original?
Including something like a hidden/uncopyable signature maybe?

Thank you.
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feyd
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Post by feyd »

Unfortunately, no. You will have to verify things on your end.
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