Re: Beneficial site spamming framework

On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 08:57 +0200, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: > On 13-10-2012 01:55, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 01:59 +0200, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: > > > >> On 11-10-2012 22:18, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >>>>> I've been getting spam comments on my personal blog (runs on > >>>>> self-written PHP blog software). I'd like to test some methods > >>>>> I've > >>>>> devised to prevent or block it. Does anyone know of a very > >>>> lightweight > >>>>> framework for simulating an automated "form fill-out" on a site? > >>>>> Something where you could just add some code to designate the site > >>>> for > >>>>> the "attack" and then what fields you wanted to send? > >>>>> > >>>>> This should be a relatively simple task for PHP and curl, but I'm not > >>>>> really familiar with the headers and that part of the HTTP > >>>> conversation. > >>>>> Yes, I know this is a risky question for a public list. Feel free to > >>>>> contact me privately if you think the answer shouldn't be in the > >>>>> archives of a public list. Likewise, if you can point me to a source > >>>> of > >>>>> quickly absorbable research on the subject. I frankly don't know how > >>>> I'd > >>>>> google such a thing. > >>>>> > >>>>> Paul > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Paul M. Foster > >>>>> http://noferblatz.com > >>>>> http://quillandmouse.com > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>>>> To unsubscribe, visit: > >>>>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>>>> > >>> > >>> To avoid having to create your own anti-spam system, I recommend Akismet, which > >>> weights posts allowing you to set a rejection threshold. The great thing is that it is constantly > >>> improving over time. > >>> > >> I've recently looked into the more modern captcha systems. I personally > >> can't stand the "standard" captcha of having to decipher what > >> characters > >> are present on a distorted image. The last few years I've noticed that > >> more and more often I can't decipher what an image is supposed to say. > >> And after a few tries of unsuccesful replying what the image says, I > >> just give up. This seems to be a reverse-Turing-test by now. Computers > >> being able to guess better than humans. > >> > >> Anyway, I wrote my own captcha system. I've noticed that simple things > >> like "what is the capital of the USA?" and then being able to choose > >> "Hong-Kong, Washington or Rome" or a question like "Is water wet or > >> dry?" work very very well. Just make up a bunch of these, and then > >> randomly pick one to have people answer on your blog. It completely > >> stopped registration spam on my forum. Simply because bots don't > >> understand such questions. > >> > >> - Tul > > > > > > There's a slight irony that this message got posted to the list 5 times, > > given the topic :p > > > Haha, good point. I forgot to remove half of the reply-to addresses from > the message (thus sending it to both the newsgroup and the mailinglist); > still that should send it only twice, not 5 times(??). Oh well... :) > > - Tul I think it might be an issue with your email client/server, as this one just came through 3 times too! -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk