bazbax (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} foobarbazbax) wrote,@ 2007-01-28 15:34:00 |
|
Hurray for CPAN module Authen::Captcha
I've never done any captcha before. I've been working on implementing an online payment system that checks the CSC. The trouble is that if I allow the user to retry, which is necessary for good usability, they can easily write a script to try 1000 times and exhaust all possibilities. I've decided that this is a good use of captcha. After a couple of failures, a captcha shows up.
Look how easy it is to generate 5 character captchas in Perl. This code generated the captcha at the top of this post.
I've never done any captcha before. I've been working on implementing an online payment system that checks the CSC. The trouble is that if I allow the user to retry, which is necessary for good usability, they can easily write a script to try 1000 times and exhaust all possibilities. I've decided that this is a good use of captcha. After a couple of failures, a captcha shows up.
Look how easy it is to generate 5 character captchas in Perl. This code generated the captcha at the top of this post.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Authen::Captcha;
use IO::Prompt;
my $captcha = Authen::Captcha->new(
data_folder => '/tmp/Authen_Captcha',
output_folder => '~/public_html/',
);
my $md5sum = $captcha->generate_code(5);
my $code = prompt "What's $md5sum.png say: ";
my $result = $captcha->check_code( $code, $md5sum );
if ( $result == 1 ) {
print "You entered the correct code\n";
} else {
print "Failure\n";
}
