Well his host (I'm 99% sure I know who it is) used to have several scripts that you could do this with. I moved away from them a while ago, but I doubt they would really care about him doing this. I know captcha is used for a reason, but I bet they wouldn't think twice about it.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Lonnie Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Joseph Scott <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Kirk Ouimet wrote: > > > >> My web host allows me to control how much RAM is available on my hosted > >> Linux VServer and charges me $1 for every 10 MB allocated. I wrote a > >> script > >> this week that uses information from the Linux command "top" to scale > >> resources available based on current demand. Running the script ends up > >> saving me about $40/month. Everything was going great until they put a > >> Captcha on the page that my script uses to set my allocated resources. > > > > What I'm going to suggest is that you talk to your host about providing > an > > API for customers to make these types of changes. In the long run I > that's > > a much better approach than trying to keep with changes to the HTML > forms. > > Um, have you thought this through? The purpose of a CAPTCHA is to > block automated robots. You run an "automated robot". Your host is > purposely trying to block what you are doing. In fact it might have > been your usage of this "robot" that triggered them to implement the > CAPTCHA. > > If you goal is to piss off your Web Hosting provider, continue with > your CAPTCHA breaking. > If you goal is to save money, contact your Web Hosting provider and > talk to them, perhaps they will provide an API, or perhaps you need to > find a new host. Pissing off your host is a "very bad thing". > > > Now I agree that you want to save money, and this idea can save you a > ton. However your web host is probably using this method to gouge > it's customers. Consider a mobile phone plan, do you really think > Verizon would be happy if users kept changing their plans every few > days to barely cover their usage. Of course not, they make lots of > money on overages, and overpaying. My guess is that your host is > doing the same thing. > > > IMHO, any time you need to consider breaking a CAPTCHA, you are doing > something nefarious, and possibly illegal. Just say NO to CAPTCHA > breaking. > > --lonnie > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
