[development] Captcha module and Firefox (was: Possible DDoS attack on Drupal user creation)

[Bèr Kessels]

Op woensdag 08 februari 2006 21:05, schreef Syscrusher:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:11, Syscrusher wrote:
> > 2. I wanted to see if anyone has a suggestion of a module -- including
> > one that I might create -- that could block bogus user account requests
> > like this but not legitimate ones. Will the "Captcha" module do what I
> > need?
>
> Captcha does accomplish the 'bot blocking.
>
> I also think I found a bug in Firefox that prevents Captcha from working
> right, and will report this on Captcha's forum.
>
> The interesting tidbit in all this is that I had to back-port Captcha to
> Drupal 4.4 to make it work with my site. Guess it's time I updated Drupal
> on that site.
>
> Scott

Captcha is bad. Evil. ;)
 http://drupal.org/node/46666 is a faaaar better approach. (imo). It validated 
the email first over SMTP on the remote server, and then reports back.

Bèr