Posted by Ian Holsman
Thanks to Feiyu Xie, I have mades some improvements to the captcha app for Django.
1. it is now OS-independant .. apparently people still use windows ;-)
2. It now sets the fields in the context instead of outputing HTML, making it easier for HTML designers to customize it
Thinking about it a bit more .. this seems like a perfect candidate for Template Processors (another new feature added since I wrote this) .. maybe after my break
Posted by Ian Holsman
Standing on the shoulders of giants, I have integrated pycaptcha with the Django Framework.
Django Captcha is available via SVN.
to use you will need to install it as any regular app, but you will need to create a ‘chained’ view so that the captcha view first verifies the validity of the captcha, and then passes it to the view of your choice.
comments/critcisms are of course welcome. (as are patches)
Posted by Ian Holsman
Google’s Gmail will be using a innovative method to confirm a person’s details, by requiring a person receive a SMS on their mobile phone.
Normally web sites require a confirmation key (double-opt-in), which is sent to you via an existing email address to confirm you are a person, or use a captcha-encoded image that you need to type in.
This way google has a way to directly connect a ‘virtual’ person with a ‘real’ one.
It will be interesting to see if other companies go down this route, especially since Captcha isn’t as effective as one would have hoped.
Personally I liked paypal’s method of depositing a couple of cents into your account and you telling them how much it was the best.
Anyone know of any other ways web sites are using to proove that it really is a person on the other end of the connection?