Re: [WSG] More on spam traps
Client side validation fails when scammers screen scrape your site and then
directly send to your receiving script. You really need to consider using a
server side validation.
Ken
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-Original Message-
From: coder co...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
Sender: li...@webstandardsgroup.org
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:37:51
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Reply-to: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] More on spam traps
Hi All,
I have recently attempted to 'trap' spammers who use autofilling tactics on the
site at www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk. This is written in html5 and uses a
mixture of simple tests to validate the form. However, yesterday I recvd a
mail thus:
a.. name
a.. igmgrtasel
a.. email
a..
a.. hidden
a.. -9
a.. comments
a.. CaWePF a href=http://ipdszgwutyvp.com/;ipdszgwutyvp/a,
[url=http://fkpbtvpaxitv.com/]fkpbtvpaxitv[/url],
[link=http://rtcdalwdjrkb.com/]rtcdalwdjrkb[/link], http://xsejahukjzdr.com/
a.. send
a.. send message .
The script I used to validate the form is this:
script type=text/javascript
function validateForm()
{
var x=document.forms[contact][email].value;
var atpos=x.indexOf(@);
var dotpos=x.lastIndexOf(.);
if (atpos1 || dotposatpos+2 || dotpos+2=x.length)
{
alert(This is Not a valid e-mail address);
return false;
}
//
var y=document.forms[contact][hidden].value;
if (y==null || y==)
{
return true;}
else
{
alert(I think you are a machine)
return false;
}
}
!--// --
function check(node)
{
var re = new RegExp('[\[\\]]', 'g');
document.getElementById('send').disabled = re.test(node.value);
}
/script
and it works locally and online. However the mail I quote from above is
completely unaffected. Does this mean I give up trying, or what?
Any thing?
Thanks,
Bob
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