I help maintain a couple of Plone sites and there has been an increasing number of automated sign-up attempts by spam bots recently. This does not only bloat the members section of the website with bogus users when these registration attemps are successful, it also spams my inbox with rejected emails from the Plone system when the spam bots use non-existing e-mail addresses.
Unfortunately, there is no “Captcha” plugin from the Plone community yet, so I hacked together some changes to the “join_form” and “join_form_validate” templates that uses the excellent Recaptcha service. Here is how you can use their service to protect your Plone site. If you are interested, see http://panyasan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/protect-your-plone-sites http://panyasan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/protect-your-plone-sites I would be happy about improvement suggestions. A native plone plugin would be much better, but I am not proficient in python and plone development so this PHP script must do it for the moment. Seems to work well. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Protect-your-Plone-2.5-sites-from-spambots-with-Recaptcha-using-a-PHP-script-tp16467193s15482p16467193.html Sent from the Installation, Setup, Upgrades mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
