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by joosters 4530 days ago
That won't work, and could be easily abused by crafting your own requests to blame any arbitrary URL of your choosing.

Plus, servers drop huge requests because they are most likely malformed or DOS attempts. Attempting to do extra work (like tracking down previous visits by the client) will only make matters worse for the server.

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Hmmm. Yes,I see the potential for abuse. Why do you say it would not work though?