[X-or]

Hello, is there a way to protect site against refresh/F5 spam attacks
I found out you can overload/crash a vb site just by keeping F5 pressed, this is crazy
is there a way to limit page refresh to once per every x minutes, cookie based if possible
if not possible can you at least disable F5 & ctr+R without making refresh completely impossible

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by X-or

Hello, is there a way to protect site against refresh/F5 spam attacks
I found out you can overload/crash a vb site just by keeping F5 pressed, this is crazy
is there a way to limit page refresh to once per every x minutes, cookie based if possible
if not possible can you at least disable F5 & ctr+R without making refresh completely impossible

While this is an older article, it was recently updated (2020) and it may help you figure something out on this!

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/...rowser-refresh

[Hostboard]

These articles as well...

https://coderanch.com/t/603666/java/...e-Page-Refresh

http://aspalliance.com/687_Preventin...n_Page_Refresh

Maybe there is code in this addon that can be used?
https://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=221739

[X-or]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

While this is an older article, it was recently updated (2020) and it may help you figure something out on this!

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/...rowser-refresh

Thank you. I could disable f5 key but not ctr+R which does the same. Not sure how to include ctr+R in there.

Originally Posted by Hostboard

These articles as well...

https://coderanch.com/t/603666/java/...e-Page-Refresh

http://aspalliance.com/687_Preventin...n_Page_Refresh

Maybe there is code in this addon that can be used?
https://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=221739

Thanks, I checked that addon but it's very old and for vb3 so not sure if safe for vb4.
That 1st link is interesting but not sure how to include that code between the <% %> tags.
Is is compatible with the <script> tag?


Sorry to ask instead of testing but I have no offline test site right now, so want to be sure what I'm doing isn't going to break things badly.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by X-or

Thank you. I could disable f5 key but not ctr+R which does the same. Not sure how to include ctr+R in there.

See Post #5 here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...lr-was-pressed

This is the code I'm using to disable refresh on IE and firefox (This works well for F5, Ctrl+F5 and Ctrl+R)

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