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Image verification on form submissions

by stonecolddevin (Parson)
on Nov 08, 2006 at 08:16 UTC ( [id://582820]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

stonecolddevin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey monks,

I'm trying to figure out how to create a system where the user must type in a phrase or somesuch from an image that's displayed on the page as a form of verification to prevent spam, autosignups, etc. Yahoo! and Google's Blogger do this (A PHP tutorial here, and an example here (near the bottom of the page)).

I know merlyn has an article on this on his website, but I can't seem to find it.

I also know it's going to involve GD::*, or Image::Magick (or something along those lines), a random string/word generator, and some hidden form values. Beyond that, I'm not sure.

Any ideas?

meh.

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Re: Image verification on form submissions
by reneeb (Chaplain) on Nov 08, 2006 at 08:34 UTC
Re: Image verification on form submissions
by atcroft (Abbot) on Nov 08, 2006 at 08:37 UTC

    Sounds like you are referring to captcha, and possibly this article ( Web Techniques - Column 68, Dec 2001 - "Keeping robots from stuffing your forms" ) of Merlyn's.

    HTH.

      I think captcha is going to be the way to go. I'll look into the additional GD* modules, but that looks like the best thus far.
      meh.
Re: Image verification on form submissions
by jbert (Priest) on Nov 08, 2006 at 12:25 UTC
    And, in my adopted role as catalyst fanboy, I should note: Catalyst::Plugin::Captcha (which the docs say uses GD::SecurityImage to do its dirty work).
Re: Image verification on form submissions
by idsfa (Vicar) on Nov 08, 2006 at 16:45 UTC

    You may also want to looks at the methods employed by SANS to deal with this problem. And please remember to consider the disabled.

    Updated: Said SANS article has now also gotten the slashdot crowd putting in their oar.


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