Prevent users from being able to access a webpage via web browser?

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Published on 2010-04-18T08:58:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 9:03 UTC
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My friend and I are working on a program. This program is going to submit GET data to our webpage. However, we don't want users accessing the webpage any other way than the program. We can prevent users from sharing the program using HWID authentication, but nothing prevents them from using a packet scanner to get the URL of the webpage. We thought about user-agent authentication, which we will implement, but user-agents can easily be spoofed.

So my question is, how can we prevent users from accessing the webpage directly, instead of through the program?

Even if you don't have an answer that will completely work, anything that will help deter them would be nice.

Currently we will be implementing:

HWID Authentication to use the program User-Agent Authentication to access the web page Instant IP Blacklisting to anyone accessing the webpage without the proper User-Agent

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