sparkfun / phant

the data logging engine behind data.sparkfun.com
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Low-tech Bot Protection #10

Closed Frencil closed 10 years ago

Frencil commented 10 years ago

Add a hidden blank field to the stream create form. If the field is populated on submit then it's a bot that's filling in all form fields, so fail.

Cheaper than a captcha but just as effective for all passive bots that come through, while not impacting user experience.

toddtreece commented 10 years ago

fixed by sparkfun/phant-manager-http@45cf6ed785bcdad926db6ea5e3259c4587c84fd7