Re: Re: Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

At 3:48 PM -0400 3/30/07, Jason Pruim wrote:

On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:17 PM, tedd wrote:

At 12:54 PM -0400 3/30/07, <tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com> wrote: Maybe I'm missing something.. if the intent is to have 'hidden' fields that a user would end up submitting but a bot wouldn't.. that wouldn't work very well. A bot could easily see the hidden fields and submit them along with whatever other data they were sending.

I know that I can provide hidden text that bots can see but users can't -- as demonstrated by this: http://www.webbytedd.com/examples/offleft/ As such, I wonder if that may provide a twist to this. However, it would only exist for sighted users. I think that what Steve suggest may have some merit. I need to think of some examples. Cheers, tedd

Would you be able to name a text field something really common like "e-mail", place it off screen and then check to see if a certain value is in there and if not don't submit the form? I remember someone somewhere doing that. Such as prefill the that text field with joe@blow.com and if it has anything else reject the form?

Yeah, that would be the idea -- I was just trying to fathom some really clever way to use the technique -- forgive me I'm strange that way. My brain works are different. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com