On Fri, March 30, 2007 11:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something.. if the intent is to have 'hidden'
> fields that a user would end up submitting but a bot wouldn't.. that
> wouldn't work very well. A bot could easily see the hidden fields and
> submit them along with whate
On 3/31/07, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 3:33 PM -0400 3/30/07, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ah ok.. that makes a bit more sense. Even still.. anyone who's
>going out of their way to program a bot to defeat your specific
>CAPTCHA mechanism will probably notice the failure in testing.
>
>Unl
At 3:33 PM -0400 3/30/07, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah ok.. that makes a bit more sense. Even still.. anyone who's
going out of their way to program a bot to defeat your specific
CAPTCHA mechanism will probably notice the failure in testing.
Unless you made a failure behave similar to a succ
At 3:48 PM -0400 3/30/07, Jason Pruim wrote:
On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:17 PM, tedd wrote:
At 12:54 PM -0400 3/30/07, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something.. if the intent is to have 'hidden'
fields that a user would end up submitting but a bot wouldn't..
that wouldn't work very
On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:17 PM, tedd wrote:
At 12:54 PM -0400 3/30/07, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something.. if the intent is to have 'hidden'
fields that a user would end up submitting but a bot wouldn't..
that wouldn't work very well. A bot could easily see the hidden
Ah ok.. that makes a bit more sense. Even still.. anyone who's going out of
their way to program a bot to defeat your specific CAPTCHA mechanism will
probably notice the failure in testing.
Unless you made a failure behave similar to a success but put them in a
situation where ultimately they
At 12:54 PM -0400 3/30/07, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something.. if the intent is to have 'hidden'
fields that a user would end up submitting but a bot wouldn't.. that
wouldn't work very well. A bot could easily see the hidden fields
and submit them along with whatever othe
Sorry for the really rough example. I just re-read my message and realized
how much stuff (closing tags, etc) I forgot to include. The general idea
should be fairly clear, though.
""Steve"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The point was to have the hidden fields tha
The point was to have the hidden fields that the bot would populate and the
user wouldn't. So for instance, let's use my example from before.
(hideSpamCatcher is a reference to a javascript function that hides the
spamcatcher div.
Name:
Password:
Now, the user comes along and doesn
Maybe I'm missing something.. if the intent is to have 'hidden' fields that a
user would end up submitting but a bot wouldn't.. that wouldn't work very well.
A bot could easily see the hidden fields and submit them along with whatever
other data they were sending.
If the intention is to trick
I read something (I think on Slashdot) a while back about another method
that could be used to avoid CAPTCHAs.
Basically on top of your standard form field, you place some input fields in
a javascript hidden div around your page conveniently named things like
"email", "address", or "phone." Bec
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