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Fraud Filter

Email Hustler

Domain Grabber

Horatio Content Protection Kit

Free-For-Some Link-Trader

Robot Rat

Mercury

Affiliate Coder

OMNI

Description

Get more info from your orders, ban free email addresses and anonymous proxies. Tell-a-friend double-opt-in mailing-list subscription slot machine.

Notifies you of deleted domains.

Content protection script package.

Trade reciprocal links

Record site accesses by spiders, bots and leeches.

Email client for webmasters.

Affiliate Program ID HTML Output.

Advanced form processing script.

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Version

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.7

1.2

1.0

1.1

1.0

1.2

Date modified

28th September '02

Oct. '02

14th Aug. '02

5th Jan. '03

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14th May '02

31st Oct. '01

31st Oct. '01

26 Apr.'02

Platforms

Unix / Windows

Unix / Windows

Unix / Windows

Unix / Windows

Unix/ Windows

Unix / Windows

Unix / Windows

Unix / Windows

Unix / Windows

Essential System Requirements

Telnet or SSH access, CGI-bin, Perl 5, Sendmail. CGI-bin, Perl 5, Sendmail. Telnet or SSH access, CGI-bin, Perl 5, Sendmail, LWP::Simple.

Telnet or SSH access, CGI-bin, Perl 5, Apache Web Server.

CGI-bin, Perl 5, LWP::Simple.

CGI-bin, Perl 5.

CGI-bin, Perl 5, Sendmail.

CGI-bin, Perl 5.

CGI-bin, Perl 5.

Optional System Requirements (to use all features).

Host (a program that gets REMOTE_HOST info.)

N/A

Whois, Crontab, Server Side Includes.

Sendmail, Server Side Includes.

Server Side Includes.

Server Side Includes.

N/A

N/A

PGP 2.6.2 or 6.0, Sendmail.

Demo.

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View demo here, here and here. NOTE: you will be subscribing to a 'live' mailing list (mine).

N/A (its a server-side script)

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N/A

N/A (it's in three separate scripts)

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Fraud Filter Features.

  • Get more customer info;
  • Works with ANY credit card processor;
  • Bars many free web-based email providers;
  • Bars popular anonymous proxy services;
  • Saves to a flat-file database (easy import);
  • Emails you the info;
  • Can pass form data to other scripts of yours.

Pro:

Keep track of your orders easily, even using Clickbank or Revecom.com. Stop fraud. Stop bogus orders (and keep your merchant account!). Be independent of any processor. Use any processor you like. Use any shopping cart you like. Saves money, and your credibility.

Con:

It's not a shopping cart; it's a shopping cart or order-form wrapper. It 'bookends' the order process. It's an add-on. It doesn't guarantee a valid transaction by itself; it limits fraud.

More:

This program is basically two scripts. The first takes the info from the Fraud Filter form and re-directs the customer to your order form. It bars fraudsters using throwaway email addresses and anonymous internet connections.

Your cart or order form then calls the second script at the end of the transaction. The second script emails you the info. taken by the first script. You can compare what it says, with what your credit card processor says. You can import this data into your customer database.

Both scripts can pass data to other scripts, like a 'daisy chain'.

It's easy to set up. It works with ANY transaction software, because it doesn't need anything from any program. You just set your cart / order form / processor to redirect to the the second script when the order is done.

 


Email Hustler Features.

  • Mailing list subscription;
  • Offer prizes;
  • Email slot machine;
  • Double or single opt-in;
  • Delete bogus addresses easily;
  • Tell-a-friend option;
  • Varied interval pop-up;
  • Stops bogus sign-ups;
  • Automatic unsubscribe;
  • Saves name and email address.

Pro:

Does everything possible to get visitors to sign up to your mailing list.

More subscriptions = more pre-qualified customers = more sales for you.

Stops people yelling "SPAM!" to your web-host when they can't remember signing up.

Con:

None.

Acknowledgements: This script was inspired by scripts available at Superscripts.com, Javascript.internet.com and Shavenferret.com.

 


 

Domain Grabber Features.

 

Pro:

  • Emails you immediately the expired domain become available;
  • Emails a colleague or company to register it for you.
  • Checks domains are still in Yahoo and DMOZ;
  • Easy setup.

Con:

  • Domain has to be registered by hand.
  • Only works for .com and .net domains.
  • Can only check a max. 100 domains a day, and a max. of 20 per hour* (basically about 4 per hour, once per hour)

*Network Solutions limits the number of queries from the same IP number. This is to stop spamming of their servers. Your IP number will be banned for 24 hours if you exceed their quota. This script is not suitable for high-volume queries of multiple domains!

You want a domain name that's 'on hold' or about to 'drop'. This script helps you get it. You can use it to monitor your own domains, too.

Monitor a domain with high link-popularity or Yahoo listing. This is the cheapest and easiest way of boosting hits to your web site.

Get notified when your own domains drop out.

Find more on how to get popular domains in The Black Book Of Ecommerce

Acknowledgements: This script was inspired by a script available at Superscripts.com.

 


Horatio Script-Set Features.

Pro:

  • Stops password hurlers;
  • Stops image pirates;
  • Stops hot-linkers;
  • Stops bots;
  • Stops site rippers;
  • Stops leech programs;
  • Cloaks HTML code;
  • Disables copy, save and print.
  • Low cost;
  • Works on virtual servers; no server log access required.
  • Mix and match features to your needs.

Horatio is a set of cgi-scripts and files that work hard to allow only legitimate visitors to access your valuable content. Contains all the old tricks, and some you won't have seen before.

Repels 99% of known Internet pests. Has interesting 'fun' and bonus features for the intelligent webmaster. Low cost introductory offer (buy it now before it costs five times as much!).

Con:
  • A little tricky to set up and understand (it's very devious!), but detailed, easy-to-follow instructions are included.

This program is for professional webmasters who want to secure their commercial content as much as possible, while still allowing legitimate clients access.

It greatly increases the chances that your content won't end up on someone elses server!

 


Free-For-Some Link Trader.

Pro:

  • Checks they've already linked to your site;
  • Filters bad words;
  • Filters dynamically-generated links (URLs containing a question mark);
  • Filters duplicate posts for the same domain;
  • Reciprocal link has to be on the submitted domain;
  • Limits link text length;
  • Allows only one post per visit;
  • Emails the poster with a message from you.
  • You can edit links easily, as the links are saved to a simple flat-file database.
  • Search engines see the link page as a normal HTML web page.

Con:

  • None.

Trade links with other sites easily and efficiently. If anyone wants a link, direct them to your Free-For-Some Link-Trader script. They do the donkey work, and you get a decent link on their site automatically.

 


Robot Rat Features.

Pro:

  • Record accesses by bots, spiders, leeches and download accelerators.

Con:

  • None.

Find out who's filleting your site. Record spider IP numbers and User Agents. Saves to a pipe-delimited text file for easy database import. No more wading through log files to see if Altavista or Google have visited.

 


 

Mercury Script Features.

Pro:

  • Roving webmasters can send personal emails, using Sendmail, from their own website.

  • Easy to set up.

You may find that you need to email someone urgently, but you can't access your own email client, and you don't want to use a service like Hotmail or Yahoo; you want the email to look professional, and have the Reply-to address to be your business one.

Set up this script, and the recipient will never know the difference. You can cc the email to your main email address, so you can keep a copy.

Con:

  • None.


Affiliate Coder Script Features.

Pro:

  • Outputs correct HTML code for affiliates quickly and easily.

  • Easy to set up.
  • Makes it more likely affiliates will actually use the code after signing up to your program.

Con:

  • THIS IS NOT AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM SOFTWARE.


OMNI Script Features.

Pro:

  • It accepts web form input.

  • Checks for hack attempts.
  • Checks for a valid http_referer.
  • Can set and retrieve a cookie (for affiliate tracking).
  • Can redirect customer to another web page.
  • Can redirect customer to one of a specified set of files, for downloading.
  • Can send form data to another Perl script.
  • Can print out the form data selectively in a web page.
  • Can email a zip, tar.gz, .exe or .hqx file as an attached file.
  • Can save the form data (including the tracking cookie), selectively, to a flat file database.
  • Can use PGP to encrypt the form data.
  • Can weakly encrypt and decrypt credit card information, if your server doesn't have PGP.
  • Can check credit card number basic validity.
  • Can incorporate a customizable text message into the customer email.
  • Can send a confirmation email to customer.
  • Can send an email [encrypted or unencrypted] to the webmaster.
  • Can send a CC email to another, specified recipient.
  • Can subscribe customers' name and email addresses to a separate flat-file database [a mailing list].
  • Can bulk-email customers, and personalise each email using their name and email address.
  • Option to turn sub-routines off within the script, for faster processing*.
  • Outputs diagnostic error messages in your browser if you haven't set it up properly.

    Latest Features:

  • Now has limited shopping cart options. It can add up prices, add tax and shipping, and display an order confirmation page, before final processing.

Con:

  • It's got a lot of code in it, so it's a bit slow (but see above*).

  • It's got a lot of options in it, so there's more possibility of set-up errors.
  • It's got a lot of options in it, so there's more possibility of errors full stop.

 

I am very interested in genuine bug reports i.e. you've set up a few scripts in your time on your server,and you're having trouble with this one.

Please go to the discussion board and post your problem there. The board will email me the post, as well as posting your problem and its solution, which will help others. List your operating system, script name, and the exact error your're getting.

To do:

Fix any bugs that other users may report.

Thanks:

The following individuals have graciously consented to the use of their original Perl code in the Omni Script set:

Mike Bagneski

Dale Bewley

The Mighty Cliff

Gunther Birznieks

Larry Leszczynski

Peter Kovacs

Please don't bother them if you're having problems with OMNI. It ain't their baby!