[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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