[ACFUG Discuss] Urgent help needed.. CF custom tag to read tab delimited text file. HOw to add trim functionality??

2006-12-21 Thread Ajas Mohammed
Hello everyone, I need help on this one real quick. One of my colleauges used this custom CF tag which parses a tab delimited text file and stores in array. How do I add functionality to this code so that it would trim all the spaces i.e either left or right or if value sent in txt file has spaces

[ACFUG Discuss] Urgent help needed.. CF custom tag to read tab delimited text file. HOw to add trim functionality??

2006-12-21 Thread Ajas Mohammed
Hello everyone, I need help on this one real quick. One of my colleauges used this custom CF tag which parses a tab delimited text file and stores in array. How do I add functionality to this code so that it would trim all the spaces i.e either left or right or if value sent in txt file has spaces

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Tepfer, Seth
Cool stuff! Thanks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Teddy Payne This may help you http://akismet.com/faq/ And check this out: http://devnulled.com/cfakismet - To un

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Teddy Payne
Seth, This may help you http://akismet.com/faq/ And check this out: http://devnulled.com/cfakismet Teddy On 12/21/06, Tepfer, Seth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the help – depressing as it might seem. Well, I'm going to try Emerle for now and I'll start implementing a blacklist. What

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Tepfer, Seth
Thanks for the help - depressing as it might seem. Well, I'm going to try Emerle for now and I'll start implementing a blacklist. What a pain! Thanks again. seth - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.ac

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Teddy Payne
Seth, What Dean says is pretty valid and is often talked of. There has been more success with putting distorted math equations into captcha images. This is typically a first line of defense though. It is recommended that you monitor the data submitted through the forms and then filter the data

re: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Mischa Uppelschoten ext 10
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Re: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Teddy Payne
1) Captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha) 2) http://lyla.maestropublishing.com/ On 12/21/06, Tepfer, Seth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know this has come up previously, but I don't know what to search for. I need to generate an image that has that skewed text on it, so that spammers

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Dean H. Saxe
details on breaking CAPTCHA: http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/2005-08/msg00058.html This will give you details on the good/bad/ugly of CAPTCHA: http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/ Is it completely busted? Nope. But its not going to stop all spammers and other automated systems.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Dean H. Saxe
Its called CAPTCHA. And its easily bypassed by computers or humans. If there is enough value behind the CAPTCHA some cheap south Asia labor will break them day and night. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dissent is the purest form of patriotism." --Thomas Jefferson O

[ACFUG Discuss] image generator/validator spam prevention

2006-12-21 Thread Tepfer, Seth
I know this has come up previously, but I don't know what to search for. I need to generate an image that has that skewed text on it, so that spammers can't read it, to validate the form submission is a human. 1) What do you CALL that thing? 2) Do you know if there is a tag or function out there