Mini Mods - Prevent guests/users from using proxies at your forum

This hack will allow you to prevent guests/users from using proxies at your forum. You can dissallow proxies for the forum as a whole or to prevent only registrations with proxies. You can enable and disable it at the Acp of your forum where you can control the settings for the mod.

Note: As you know there is no such way of preventing proxies 100% but it helps a lot. I tested it with a dozen proxies and it stopped 8 of them.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Works great at what, though? Blocking entire corporations? Entire campuses? All AOL users? Apparently some countries?

It seems to me this is like using nuclear missiles to kill mosquitoes...

I don''t think you read my previous post about what it actually blocks and what not. It blocks only those who use the open ports I mentioned and not AOL users or entire countires. For my needs this works great and for others as well. If you don''t like it don''t use it, very simple. Or modify it yourself as you please for personal use

[borbole]

Originally Posted by vb4newb

I am very happy with it ,I tested it thoroughly and then again my members are all home users
so I think it depends on your target membership, not all forums cater to Large corporations
that use proxies.

I have coded this for another forum that I use and I haven''t had a problem with aol users. I agree, not all forums cater to Large corporations that use proxies. And most of my members are home users too.

Originally Posted by ndut

thank you

You are welcome.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by barcena

I'm all for this!!!!

You'r hack idea is great, you have no idea how badly I/we need something like this, but not so drastic though; and I think if you implement lemonadesoda's ideas this will become MOTM in no time!.

I had implemented a similiar thing at a mod I have coded for another forum software and it didn''t work for the reasons I posted in my earlier post.

[rajubd]

Can you improv it to adslock. Like person who use adblocker addon on firefox can't view forum. It will be great addon maybe best addon of the year.

[lemonadesoda]

I still think the tool is a bit blunt.

Yes, it might be all you need for your forum, but I think to win nominations from the community it needs a little more capability for their needs. Perhaps find a half-way house to the suggesiton I made earlier in post #15?

Anyway, good luck, and I hope you do consider to develop the mod further. It's got a lot of potential.

[denman75]

i had to un install it ,
its was really slowing down my forums and cms
loading times went from 10 seconds back to normal speed

[borbole]

My hack doesn''t influence the speed performance in any way btw.

[netwind]

Did you know about "Resource allocation" ? This hack does influence to speed performance.
Each request allocate memory for php (not for you hack directly) and wait up to 2 seconds for normal users with port 80 closed by firewall.
On typical server this can be increase requested memory for two times or more.

[MichaelDance]

well done can u make it for 3.8 please so i can use it

[borbole]

Originally Posted by MichaelDance

well done can u make it for 3.8 please so i can use it

It should work on a 3.8 forum. Remove the version from the <dependencies> and you should be all set.