[Koha-devel] Need to improve anti-spam for opac-suggestions

[David Cook]

Hi Brooke:

We're already doing that with the negcap, and that worked for a while, but I
think that someone may have changed their bot to exclude fields with an ID
or class of "negcap"... or their bot doesn't always fill out all fields
perhaps. It seems to be a bit of a sporadic thing, as I'll see lots of
failed HTTP POSTs in the logs, but occasionally one gets through and adds a
spam suggestion.

Jonathan: I think changing the name from "negcap" would be a good idea.

David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of BWS Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2016 11:50 PM
> To: Bob Birchall <bob at calyx.net.au>; koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Need to improve anti-spam for opac-suggestions
> 
> Salvete!
> 
> > This issue first arose at a library whose collection is 100% digital.
> > Users are not even registered, so never log in.  Any suggestions are
> > necessarily anonymous.
> 
> 
>     Ah, how interesting. This additional information is very helpful. No
wonder
> there is a much higher incidence of spam than what I normally hear about!
> 
>     My suggestion after attending ShmooCon would be to honeypot the form,
> and then reassess things.
> 
> https://www.dexmedia.com/blog/honeypot-technique/
> 
> Cheers,
> Brooke
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