Re: Spammer on Bugs page
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:17:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Spammer on Bugs page | ||
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Hi Wez:
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:17:04PM +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:
> > I know this is just a quick measure, but isn't the whole idea to not
> > emit the code in plain text on the form? It's really very easy to
> > scrape it out.
>
> Yes, it is simple to scrape. But, I suspect that the problem is coming
> from bots making direct POST's rather than doing a page view and then
> submitting therefrom. Of course, I could be wrong. Even if I'm right
> now, nothing is preventing someone from making a smarter bot.
You're wrong, for each comment there were four requests done with
curl...
I doubt that this is going to work at all.
regards,
Derick