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Banning Users
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:37 pm
by Zabulus
When you ban a user, by computer, what does that do? Does it just ban their IP or does it put a cookie on their machine?
Thanks
Zab
Re: Banning Users
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:01 pm
by Kent Briggs
Zabulus wrote:When you ban a user, by computer, what does that do? Does it just ban their IP or does it put a cookie on their machine?
The PC ID is a random number saved as a Flash cookie on the first connection. The IP address is separate from that. You can blacklist either one or both in combination.
Re: Banning Users
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:14 am
by Zabulus
So if the user clears cookies, he would no longer be banned right?
Re: Banning Users
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:29 am
by Kent Briggs
Zabulus wrote:So if the user clears cookies, he would no longer be banned right?
Flash cookies are separate from normal browser cookies. They are not easily cleared. A player would have to know where they were stored and manually delete the file. And that only affects the PC ID, not the IP address.