W B Hacker wrote: >>> Going forward with a new Webmail client, we're looking at 'also' having the >>> Webmail user select from a randomly-positioned graphic - one among several >>> - >>> with a mouse-click - as has been used by some of the financial services >>> giants. >>> Pity some of those paid less rigourous attention to the rest of their >>> 'core' >>> business (Countrywide). >>> >>> The html has to use a call for the graphic that is essentially 'one time' >>> coded, >>> whilst the back-end relates the choice - 'out of sight' - to the specific >>> user >>> and no other. Fortunately, our back-end for auth is PostgreSQL, so the >>> flexibility is already there. >> That sounds like the "select the picture" section on the signup form for >> https://www.localphone.com/register >> >> I don't get those things. They're meant to stop automated machines from >> signing up, yet in reality all they do is make the automated machine >> make on average three HTTP requests rather than one, in order to sign >> up. Completely useless. >> > > Perhaps so in that case. Not so in others. > > But ... as you said. You 'don't get it'. > > Fortunately, on the well-engineered ones, neither do the robots...
How does the one that you're going to use work? -- Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer Cardwell IT Ltd. (UK Reg'd Company #06920226) http://cardwellit.com/ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
