Re: SOT: CF makes an appearance on Daily WTF

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Root
On 9/20/07, John Paul Ashenfelter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Clearly the issue isn't CF -- it's being stupid about security. REALLY stupid.) Hah, that's pretty damn funny. It's like implementing captcha, but validating the captcha key with javascript - meaning that you're actually put the

Re: SOT: CF makes an appearance on Daily WTF

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Root
Here's a WTF from a commenter on that site, by someone named Ph33r my 5k1llz! who claims to have done Coldfusion development for 1.5 years: CFSESSION is not in the article. Just as in every web application you can use application and session variables to store similar kinds of information. These

Re: SOT: CF makes an appearance on Daily WTF

2007-09-20 Thread Claude Schneegans
It's like implementing captcha, but validating the captcha key with javascript Ha ha, but where is the problem, since robots can't read Javascript? ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please

RE: SOT: CF makes an appearance on Daily WTF

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Harrison
WTF? CFSESSION? Obviously you're not up to CF9 yet. Get with the program :-) Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be

Re: SOT: CF makes an appearance on Daily WTF

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Root
On 9/20/07, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's like implementing captcha, but validating the captcha key with javascript Ha ha, but where is the problem, since robots can't read Javascript? ;-) That's exactly the problem. Because robots typically read the form, and then submit

RE: SOT: CF makes an appearance on Daily WTF

2007-09-20 Thread Dave Watts
Ha ha, but where is the problem, since robots can't read Javascript? ;-) Robots can certainly read (and execute) JavaScript, if they're specifically designed to do so. Most search engine crawlers don't execute JavaScript, but there are some that can, such as Texis' Webinator product. Dave

Re: SOT: CF makes an appearance on Daily WTF

2007-09-20 Thread Claude Schneegans
Because robots typically read the form Sure, I was just joking ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks.