Hi guys,
I really appreciate your intrest in this.
wysardry, restricting which hosts submit, doesnt seem to stop these guys, I have also done the obvious things like adding hidden fields here and there, but its usually only a day or two and they are onto that. One of my databases has been recieving anything up to 1000 auto-submitted links a day, and to be honest its getting a bit much, thats why I figured something like that used in the altavista submission form would hopefully put a stop to it once and for all.
I have seen other methods discussed including using cookies, but with each of these other methods someone always seems to post a work around straight after. I may be wrong in my thinking, but I assumed the image idea would be the most secure way.
Andy, yes that is the sort of thing I was thinking about, I had actually thought that I would probably include it in the add.html page. The idea being that the submitter must fill in the form as normal and then copy the text displayed on the image into a field in the form (as per the AV page), click submit, and then the text entered into that field would be checked, if correct , the submission would be accepted otherwise an error message displayed.
Paul, I must admit, my initial thought was also to use 1 image with random text, but I think I understand what wysardry is suggesting.
I would greatly appreciate anything you guys could come up with
As I said , This is way beyond my skills.
Upon further searching I did find a site that is planning on offerering such a service, but it appears not to be available as yet, plus I think this one is going to be a subscription type service and I would much rather keep it all on my own server.
http://www.formsentinel.com/
I really appreciate your intrest in this.
wysardry, restricting which hosts submit, doesnt seem to stop these guys, I have also done the obvious things like adding hidden fields here and there, but its usually only a day or two and they are onto that. One of my databases has been recieving anything up to 1000 auto-submitted links a day, and to be honest its getting a bit much, thats why I figured something like that used in the altavista submission form would hopefully put a stop to it once and for all.
I have seen other methods discussed including using cookies, but with each of these other methods someone always seems to post a work around straight after. I may be wrong in my thinking, but I assumed the image idea would be the most secure way.
Andy, yes that is the sort of thing I was thinking about, I had actually thought that I would probably include it in the add.html page. The idea being that the submitter must fill in the form as normal and then copy the text displayed on the image into a field in the form (as per the AV page), click submit, and then the text entered into that field would be checked, if correct , the submission would be accepted otherwise an error message displayed.
Paul, I must admit, my initial thought was also to use 1 image with random text, but I think I understand what wysardry is suggesting.
I would greatly appreciate anything you guys could come up with
As I said , This is way beyond my skills.
Upon further searching I did find a site that is planning on offerering such a service, but it appears not to be available as yet, plus I think this one is going to be a subscription type service and I would much rather keep it all on my own server.
http://www.formsentinel.com/