Sandra, I had read of that technique in the comments of Ben Nadel's blog post about his Math technique. At present I get a few spam submissions a week and they are all of the same format (first and last name in both fields and a well formed email address). It does make me thing that maybe I am only dealing with one spam bot, but I am sure there will be more in the future.
My action page is a component, so I would rather not reference the session scope in the CFC. How exactly do I check against the session variable in that case? -Aaron On 11/8/06, Sandra Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How bout setting a session variable on the form when loaded and checking for > it after submittal? Most spammers use automatic submittal, so its not from > your site and hence no session variable. They can't emulate it and its > invisible to your users. > > > Sandra Clark > ============================== > http://www.shayna.com > Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:14 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam > > Ben, > > The nice thing about your Javascript suggestion is that people will think > that they are just confirming their subscription (which is true) while in > reality it would be filtering spam. Another thing is that they will already > be committed having submitted the form, and would likely click the confirm > button. > > A couple of cons of using your JavaScript suggestion should be noted. > The confirmation dialog is annoying, especially in IE since it makes a > noise.Secondly, some people may have JavaScript disabled. Third, people may > hesitate completing any other forms on the site thinking that they will also > have a confirmation on submit which is annoying. > > The good thing is that the newsletter form is typically something a visitor > would only fill out once. They would not be annoyed by confirmation dialogs > again. > > I may choose to use JavaScript as you have suggested instead of checking if > the first name and last name is the same. I'm not sure. > > -Aaron > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
