secure the referer page to prevent fraud

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Hi, I am doing scratch ticket for my clients and for each ticket I have a looser form and a winner form ;-) So to secure the winner form url from being cut and past to other, I added this code
<?php
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$referer_parse = parsel_url($referer);
if($referer_parse['host'] == "example.com" || $referer_parse['host'] == "www.example.com") {
} else { header("Location: http://www.example.com/redirected-page");
exit();
}
?>
in the php file called by the winner form url, making this sure thaht if the palyer do not come from the specified url then he can not open the form.
I hope you understand so far... Since now I hosted my self the form files, so no problem to add this code to my files.

The question is how can I still do that when hosted on S-Drive ?

regards
JB
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Sorry, No custom PHP scripts on S-Drive at this time.:)
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User 152610 Photo


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Hi Eric,
yes I understand about no custom PHP, but could this be added in a next release as option under the settings tab ?
like a secure tab where we can add the url where the form is hosted....
not so complicated to do ;)
JB
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I doubt CC will allow custom scripts any time soon. To risky for what they really intend for S-Drive. Easy one click publishing. If they do allow php scripts at a later date they will probably be from a pick list so they still have control.
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This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
User 152610 Photo


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3 posts

I understand, then I will do like this : first host a "secure" page witch then redirect to the S-Drive Forms according to the referer in my script... But I do think that could be a build-in option on Web form builder, so no custom script needed then.

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