in reply to Re: Stop Form Hurling
in thread Stop Form Hurling

First, I agree fully with the part about handicap access, and I think that it should be a show stopper for any moral programmer; even one getting paid for doing such work.

Second, stringing together images is a bad idea, because you can look at the image names and (presumably) the bot can just translate the image tags to the words. Simple obfuscation might not work. My own preference for a module to do all graphics stuff is Gimp/Perl. The Perl-Server that comes with this moves the graphics processing into a seperate process from the webserver, so you only have the glue in all the apache (or ...) processes. Note however that the locking doesn't work in all versions, so I just flock() a lockfile.


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Re^3: Stop Form Hurling
by gaal (Parson) on Nov 06, 2004 at 07:33 UTC
    I think that it should be a show stopper for any moral programmer; even one getting paid for doing such work.

    It's about as immoral as building a staircase. As long as an alternative is supplied, I don't see a moral problem.

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      That's the whole point, to prevent alternative methods. What do you want to replace the elevator, a wav file spelling the letters? Do you think many projects that use this, budget for that? If that's part of the spec, fine, there is an exception to my statement, but I've seen a lot of these damn things, and I've NEVER seen one with an elevator.

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        LiveJournal has one (scroll to the bottom of the page). It's open source.

        (The implication being, of course, not that it is "free" to implement audio captcha, but that it is not impossible; that a site with millions of users has chosen to do so; and that they share the way they did it with other potential programmers.)

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