1 Topic by scuzzo84 (edited by scuzzo84 2006-08-29 21:38)

  • Registered: 2006-07-17
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Topic: Spam Prevention

delete my worthless post

2 Reply by Smartys (edited by Smartys 2006-08-29 21:25)

  • Smartys
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Re: Spam Prevention

Edit: Apparently I missed the patches tongue

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Re: Spam Prevention

I hope those outputted characters are actually HTML-encoded ASCII characters (like @ for, erm a I think)... else a bot can be easily adjusted wink

  • Smartys
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Re: Spam Prevention

This is worthless wink
1. A bot can easily do sums
2.

    // Spam Check
        $sum = $_POST['sum'];
        $answer = $_POST['answer'];
        if ($answer != $sum){
        message($lang_prof_reg['Spam']);
        }

The user submits the correct answer and their answer. You do realize hidden input fields are editable and thus it's trivial for a user to submit both the same

  • From: Leuven, Belgium
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Re: Spam Prevention

rofl, indeed, this has no use...

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Re: Spam Prevention

was this the math one? you need to answer a simple math problem before your post is submitted?

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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
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Re: Spam Prevention

Dr.Jeckyl wrote:

was this the math one? you need to answer a simple math problem before your post is submitted?

Yes. But it should be done alot more secure smile