[csw-maintainers] Spam from the pkgrequest form
William Bonnet
william at wbonnet.net
Tue Aug 17 12:22:25 CEST 2010
Hi
>> How about adding a honeypot field? It's a text field that must remain
>> empty for the form to be accepted. Bots usually try to fill all the
>> fields in the hope that they will fill in all the mandatory fields.
>>
> Is this efficient? How about a captcha? The same will apply for the new
> maintainer subscription, isn't it?
>
ThanksMeter and Maciej, this is a good idea. I'm giving a look to php
and wordpress stuff for availables captcha libraries.
This form was made quickly, i am adding a database storage for requested
packages. This form will display the list of requested packages.
cheers
W.
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