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I wanted to do a little change to some code I'd written for CS yesterday. For both the Gaptcha control and my in-line file uploader I'm uploading a file and saving somewhere within the current user's blog. I've been constructing the save locations (and hence the URL to the saved file) in a sorta roundabout way, relying on using the Weblog.Url ...

This post is my list of features/bugs/etc for the next version of Gaptcha. There's no guarantee that everything I mention in this list will make it to the next version, but this is my central point for listing any thoughts. This post will be updated as I think of more or tick things off. Update function for any Gaptcha image. Clean up the ...

Version 1.0 of the Gaptcha Control is now ready for public consumption (should anyone want it :) Download it here. Sadly, to add Gaptcha to your site it's not just a simple matter of just dropping an assembly in your bin folder - there's a few different patches to be made. The purpose of this article is to guide you through patching it into your ...

Update: The source is now live!  I've now got timeouts working. Currently for this blog, the selected set of pictures you must click on to successfully submit a comment will expire 10 minutes after the page loads. This means that if you take a long time to write a comment, submission might still fail. But that's alright, because ...

While writing my Gaptcha control, I wrote a few drafts along the way of how it would work. It's funny the way things progress. I like to think I have a pretty good knowledge of HTML, DHTML, and the HTTP protocol (which when you've got the three covered pretty much covers the whole web right? - well, most of it...) But while I know all that, that ...

Update: The source is now live!  Tonight I made a couple of little mods to my Gaptcha control. First, I stopped just base64 encoding the names of the images that needed to be selected in the form. It was extremely easy to crack :) It now encrypts the information first, and THEN base64 encodes it. Second, I made it a little user-friendlier ...

Update: The source is now live!  Well, I was up until 1am this morning getting it polished enough, and then I had to wait until morning for some tech support on some SQL that I wrote (damnit, I used SQL2005 syntax for one proc when I should have remembered that CrankyGoblin runs on SQL2000 - thanks Noonie!), but it's live. The test now ...

Update2: The source is now live!  Update: It's now live! Thanks for the support everyone :)It's working! It's all working and there's only a couple of tiny issues left to fix! That is, it's working on my local machine :) While developing, I've been setting each Gaptcha image's alt text to the description, so I ...

Update: The source is now live!  I've received some positive feedback on my thoughts on my new captcha control. While I've been given many suggestions, for now I think I'll just go with the simplest implementation possible, just so that I can get something live - while I want to, of course, have something well written, the ...

Update: The source is now live!  I never thought I'd do it, but the day has arrived. I'm starting to get enough blog spam, at a consistent rate, that I need to start thinking about prevention. But I hate captcha controls. They're all so hard to read. So I had an idea. How can I make it easy to use, but still require specific ...