W B Hacker wrote:
>>> Going forward with a new Webmail client, we're looking at 'also' having the
>>> Webmail user select from a randomly-positioned graphic - one among several -
>>> with a mouse-click - as has been used by some of the financial services giants.
>>> Pity some of those paid less rigourous attention to the rest of their 'core'
>>> business (Countrywide).
>>>
>>> The html has to use a call for the graphic that is essentially 'one time' coded,
>>> whilst the back-end relates the choice - 'out of sight' - to the specific user
>>> and no other. Fortunately, our back-end for auth is PostgreSQL, so the
>>> flexibility is already there.
>> That sounds like the "select the picture" section on the signup form for
>> https://www.localphone.com/register
>>
>> I don't get those things. They're meant to stop automated machines from
>> signing up, yet in reality all they do is make the automated machine
>> make on average three HTTP requests rather than one, in order to sign
>> up. Completely useless.
>>
>
> Perhaps so in that case. Not so in others.
>
> But ... as you said. You 'don't get it'.
>
> Fortunately, on the well-engineered ones, neither do the robots...
How does the one that you're going to use work?
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Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer
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