Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-CVS] cvs: pearweb /include pear-format-html.php

Hi Daniel Convissor! On 09/22/2004 04:28 PM you wrote:

I tried that stuff now about 20 times in a row and only in 1 of these times, the characters were "readable" (that's exaggregated, it was possible to decipher them with some effort).

Yeah, that's the point. I generally can read the thing within two refreshes. I dropped one more of the ambiguous fonts.

If someone finds fonts that are better, I'll be glad to institute those.

Did you every use Arial, Tahoma or another simple sans-serif font? Should work fine and with that background stuff and the rotation it should be hard enough to OCR the text for spam bots.

Beside that it seemed that I always got the same string (maybe I'm wrong, most times I could not even figure out 1 letter).

The same string is presented on each refresh. The string is changed upon submission or time out (5 minutes).

Ah, ok.

In looking at the stuff just now, I found a cache bug in Mozilla's recent nightly builds. The image doesn't refresh on a bad submission. Ugh. But that's Mozilla's problem, not ours.

;) Regards, Toby P.S.: Does anyone know how far Christians Text_CAPTCHA is growen? -- Tobias Schlitt GPG Key: 0xA6529579 a passion for php http://www.schlitt.info Like to say "thank you"? - http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/toby