Something about validating but how does this ALL work. I would like to know, how can they stop it from anyone just making a fake validation? inside of the urls. Please give me full detail in how this works.
this sounds like a question that a person would ask if they're planning on using a pirated copy, and worried about getting caught...
Well I have a vBulletin license so I'll answer your question. They have a member's area where you have to submit the url to the forum you are running vB at. Simply put, its stored in their database after this. If you were running a vB forum without a valid license and they saw it or someone reported it your url would obviously not be in the database.. that's how they would know.
No im having a ruby on rails forum application made. And I was wondering how it works, so that I can have the coders make something better.
That is nice. Infact, i used to research a lot of security license checks and have enough knowledge to protect my work. But in real, you cant protect the code... Its always insecure. For the license validation, you have to setup some type of data to be posted from remote URL (user of your script) to your site which will act as validation server. So, if you tell your coders to do so, they will also need to encrypt the script, otherwise any PHP coder can easily get to know the data being posted and can easily disable it... Encryption once again, isn't the ultimate protection to the users who knows how the PHP code is parsed by server... But if you achieve this level upto Encryption, then it is 80% secured....
Well i need to set up a system where the license validates for all of the websites inside of My admin panel so if something is reported to not have a valid license, i can look it up inside of my admin panel, if the url is in there then they are fine if they are not they are not.