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Re:Show HN: This up votes itself by simonw on Thursday March 22, 2012 @08:59PM (#3742983)
That's not a good enough solution - there are decent reasons that a referrer header might be missing (some PC antivirus software strips out referrer headers for example). The only safe way to handle this is with a POST request protected by a CSRF token tied to a cookie.
Re:Show HN: This up votes itself by hashbo on Thursday March 22, 2012 @09:22PM (#3743090)
+1 You can’t trust the Referer header.
Re:Show HN: This up votes itself by jpablo on Thursday March 22, 2012 @09:56PM (#3743222)
GET with randomized ids and checking referrer should be good enough to keeps things simple.