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alexhenes wrote:Suggestion: It would be great to have some type of humanity test on the contact form

Did you get any spam emails from bots yet? Imagevue X3 already incorporates extensive anti-bot measures for the contact form.

1. If you noticed, there are TWO invisible "honeypot" fields in the contact form. They are disguised as name/nickname fields, and one of them is pre-populated, while the other as empty. A bot will want to fill the fields, or at least do something with them (else what would be the purpose of a bot if it doesn't fill fields?) ... If they are changed, the mail is blocked, as it's clearly not a human. Even though the mail is blocked, the bot thinks it succeeded.

2. Unlike most forms, the form ACTION="mailscript.php" is hidden in X3, and the form submit is triggered by javascript instead. The reason other pages don't do this, is because they are hanging on to the vague idea that "yea, but we gotta support browsers without javascript also". Bots don't generally support javascript, and are incapable of this process, which requires "clicking" the send button.