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Hasty Treat - Forms, Captchas, Honeypots, Dealing With Malicious Users and the Sad State of Contact Forms
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
English - July 06, 2020 13:00 - 20 minutes - 22.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 935 ratingsTechnology News Tech News css html html5 javascript webdevelopment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about forms, captchas, dealing with malicious users, and more!
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Show Notes02:00 - So you made a form:
Contact form Sales form Email signup for newsletter Bug report Sign up for an account Password reset03:00 - Now someone is going to:
Have a bot that submits it Maliciously write a bot that submits thousands04:14 - So what can you do?
4:54 - Honey pot
This is a field that is either hidden or you tell the user not to fill in Can goof up autofill Works in many cases07:37 - IP Throttle
Only allow each IP to do an action a certain number or times inside a window You may only try signing up once per 10 mins09:48 Block known ASN
12:37 - Captcha
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