[ROL-704] Improve hit tracker, the current one can be misused

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.1
• Component/s: Pings and Trackbacks
• Environment: All platforms.
• Browser Version: All
• Database: Unknown
• JDK Version: Unknown
• O/S Version: Unknown
• Assignee: Roller Unassigned
• Reporter: Roman Strobl
• Created: 05/Apr/05 16:47
• Updated: 26/Aug/13 02:12
• Resolved: 26/Aug/13 02:12

Description

Currently it is quite easy to exploit the hit tracker. Users can generate for themselves lots of hits which makes hit statistics unreliable. See my blog for the technique used to exploit the hit tracker:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen/20050401#blog_stats_not_accurate_and

The hit tracker should be improved to be resistent to this kind of actions.