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Learning Report #8

Adding a CAPTCHA

In this learning report I discovered what CAPTCHA’s are and how to use them

What I learned

As much as I enjoyed using our security question of what is 2+2, I thought it would be even better if I had a better security device. I stumbled upon the word CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turning test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) while reading a post from welie.com and I was sold. Going to our most trusty site Google, I found a project done by Carnegie Mellon University that created their own CAPTCHA to be used by others. The site captcha.net provides different formats to use the CAPTCHA in. I decided that it would be best to use the php since my ‘Contact Me’ page is in php. After following these directions and having to figure out why it didn’t work for a good while from this site, I was able to stumble upon it working.

I am still debating whether or not to keep the CAPTCHA on my site because I do not enjoy the style that it comes in. It does make my site look less professional with an obvious look that it is an add-on. For the time being, I will plan to keep it on. I did as a back-up save the original form so it will be easy to replace.

Explanation/Examples

To see the CAPTCHA in action click here.