Ban by name : case sensitive?

Are you sure about the guest and the cookie ? If I ban a guest (by his common username), do you think a cookie is made, when he comes back, to protect the forum from his future attacks, if using other usernames ?

Of course But if they don't, it helps ; you know, you can't protect your house, but you can make more difficult and time consuming to enter. So, more protections = more time to bypass them (amha). Search in the cookie and delete them, it's easy, but it's boring

Thank you for replying so quickly.
abclf.

hum : but do a guest log in ?

Here it is what I understand :
Case 1 : it's a member : as soon as he logs in, a cookie is done to avoid his future coming back (right ?)
Case 2 : but for for a guest ? A guest doesn't log in, so ?

abclf.

arf ;

so, if a guest doesn't log in -because it's a guest and a guest doesn't log in-, the script won't sent him a «ban-cookie» ?
Here it is the main subject of my post : I have banned mister Aaa Bb Cccc ; he will surely come back and first, he will test posting with his usual name (Aaa Bb Cccc) ; if he can't he will try with (aAa bb cCC for example), and so on.
What I suggest/ask : at the first step, the script sets a generic «ban-cookie» = this computer banned.

I'm too long ?
abclf.

And guests never have cookie ?

Hello Connorhd,

IP is not the "fatal weapon" neither
Of course one can delete cookie, but one can also change its ip, (or maybe use proxy, anonymizer) and so on.

What I understand in fact is that the protection is better against banned member :
When I ban a member, he will have to delete his cookie to come back, agree ? No way to avoid this step, ok ?
But, if i ban a guest, I'm limited to the IP/username/email : if he uses non static one, I will have to ban him day after day (each time his IP changes).
With the help of a cookie, he will need to delete this cookie first : it's a one more step. Yes, I agree, it is easy to do but it's annoying.

Thanks for your interest,
abclf.

Here there is my little problem : I want to ban/exclude one guest.
Ok, first I ban his usual name (hope it is case insentive), second I ban his IP. I'm protected for this day
Of course, the day after, when his IP has changed, he comes back.
Reban his new IP and so on.

What I suggested in this post is : imagine I ban the IP number xxxx ; the ip owner (guest) comes back and is recognized : he can't do anything that day.
What I suggest is : as soon as he is recognized, first sent a ban-cookie for having another level of protection. I suppose it is not very difficult to do. So, when he comes back, with another IP, he will be identified as banned, whereas is IP has changed.
Do you see what I mean ? I would like the program to be more active in case of banning.

Of course I know cookie are not the ultimate solution, but IP?, but it is annoying to delete them.

What do you think about it ? Really useless ?
I remember I was banned from a forum - not this one, pfff - and I remember I was sent a cookie ; of course I deleted it, but just one time

Thanks,
abclf.

1/ there is such a cokie
2/ the script identifies the cookie
3/ the script asks the database to see if the ban is effective at this time or if it has been suppressed, deleted...
4/ the ban is effective : banned / the ban is deleted : delete cookie
I'm not a programer