On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Brad Jorsch <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is also a captcha we're talking about. Its primary purpose is to > prevent non-human interaction. > I know, but think about it this way: why would an API need to login using CAPTCHA? Because it's going to render that CAPTCHA to the user, request their login information, and then relay it to the API so that it can perform whatever actions it needs to perform. If we return just an HTML blob, then we are enforcing that the client application show the user exactly that output. If we output machine-readable information, then the client can render the CAPTCHA however it wants. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
