[Tech] [Setup] Protect your Plone 2.5 sites from spambots with Recaptcha using a PHP script

[panyasan]

Came across this...
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I help maintain a couple of Plone sites and there has been an increasing
number of automated sign-up attempts by spam bots recently. This does  
not
only bloat the members section of the website with bogus users when  
these
registration attemps are successful, it also spams my inbox with  
rejected
emails from the Plone system when the spam bots use non-existing e-mail
addresses.

Unfortunately, there is no “Captcha” plugin from the Plone community  
yet, so
I hacked together some changes to the “join_form” and  
“join_form_validate”
templates that uses the excellent Recaptcha service. Here is how you  
can use
their service to protect your Plone site. If you are interested, see

http://panyasan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/protect-your-plone-sites
http://panyasan.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/protect-your-plone-sites

I would be happy about improvement suggestions. A native plone plugin  
would
be much better, but I am not proficient in python and plone  
development so
this PHP script must do it for the moment. Seems to work well.


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