My program is loading a file from our web site and checking to see if
it contains the code (a 32bit number) for the current user of the
program. The file is a list of codes of people who have done charge
backs, bad checks or otherwise are not legal to use my program.
If the current user is on the list, besides making the program no
longer work, I want to make a log entry into a password protected
folder that identifies that this user attempted to access our services
which indicates that he is illegally using our program.
I realize I could download an entire log file, append an entry, then
upload it back to the web site, but, even though there aren't many
users in the list, it would certainly be possible for two of them to be
accessing the site at the same time and cause problems with the log
file. To resolve this, is there a way to just append a line of coded
text to a file on the Internet? I've searched and can't see a way to do
it.
In lieu of that, I guess I could just make a single line file in a
folder dedicated to this purpose.
Of course the risk in any of this is that the user's machine would be
sending the password and username to our site and I guess that could be
intercepted and easily seen by a knowledgeable person with the right
tools.
Another approach would be to send the information encoded in a ?
parameter to a web page. When you use InternetFileRead, can you append
parameters to the filename and would script on the page be executed
before that page is sent? In other words when you use http to access
the web site in a program, it is the same as when you select a page in
Internet explorer -- i.e. does the web site get a normal logable hit
and is any javascript in the page executed?
If someone can answer these questions or at least point me in the right
direction I would greatly appreciate it.
