Thanks Corion, for your concern and thoughts. I am working with old forms/scripts that were here for years before I came on the scene...and I am still very much a newbie figuring out how programming works. As I've struggled trying to find solutions for this, I've come across the dire warnings about Formmail.pl, and vow to rewrite these cgi scripts using a safer template - however, for now I just need to get this working.

re: your update comment - if I am looking for an empty field in order to allow the form to validate, and the bot fills the field in, how is that going to be useless? I'm not following you.

*Thanks for the nms link. :-)

In reply to Re^2: CGI Honeypot? by Hans Castorp
in thread CGI Honeypot? by Hans Castorp

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