spam from contact forms
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- secretagentgel
i've got a few contact forms on various web sites and i'm getting spam thru them from robots filling them out and hitting "send". anyone know how to avoid this? how to i confirm the user is human without making it a pain to use the form?
thanks,
corey
- -kappa-0
I've been getting the same...
- seed0
Weird. I always use contact forms partly to avoid spam.
This is different but I keep getting these dumb emails complaining about Microsoft and the sender says it's from my email address.
- ********0
add another box by the send button. create a jpg of a five digit number or code. ask the user to fill that code into the box before hitting send.
the robot will have no way of knowing what that jpg code is. problem solved.
- UndoUndo0
capture the ip address and use a script to push them away.
are these spam mails from yr forms containing header info??
- van_rijn0
lately users have been adding headers in the textareas to BCC people.
can do a string replace with php to null that issue. had to do that to a lot of my clients websites.
in the end, i took the person's IP into a database and basically ban them from the site and or server
- -kappa-0
http://www.perceptiondesign.com/…
I've added the IP detials to the form, and I recieve them with every contact - seems to have stopped them...
- UndoUndo0
htmlspecialchars(); function run on every value from text fields will also do stop header information