Re: CAPTCHA
"Tanner Lovelace" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Karen Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > You know, I have a friend who was getting lots of spam on the > Ruby-on-Rails site he made for his wedding. He has a solution that I > thought was interesting. > > He is registering javascript events on his inputs now. (Checking for > onblur I think) The scripts that were spamming him don't trigger them. > If no event is triggered, the submission is ignored. > > What do you think of his solution? > > K So, then, his website is completely unusable, then, if people turn off javascript or if they use a text based browser like lynx? Doesn't sound like a very good solution for a generic website. Since his, however, is specific for him and he probably knows all the people that will be using it, it's probably ok. Cheers, Tanner Lovelace -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable.