In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about forms, captchas, dealing with malicious users, and more!

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Show Notes

02:00 - So you made a form:

Contact form
Sales form
Email signup for newsletter
Bug report
Sign up for an account
Password reset

03:00 - Now someone is going to:

Have a bot that submits it
Maliciously write a bot that submits thousands

04:14 - 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 cases

07:37 - 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 mins

09:48 Block known ASN

12:37 - Captcha

Soft captcha: “What is 1 plus 1?”
Annoying captcha: Type these letters
Google captcha: Train our self driving cars
Hidden captcha
Cloudflare hCaptcha

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Hasty Treat - Forms, Captchas, Honeypots, Dealing With Malicious Users and the Sad State of Contact Forms

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Hasty Treat - Forms, Captchas, Honeypots, Dealing With Malicious Users and the Sad State of Contact Forms