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| The name of the field will be entered first, followed by a colon (:) and then the value the user entered. Any of these extra fields will be added to the end of any existing Comments already entered. A new line will separate multiple user defined custom fields. | The name of the field will be entered first, followed by a colon (:) and then the value the user entered. Any of these extra fields will be added to the end of any existing Comments already entered. A new line will separate multiple user defined custom fields. | ||
| - | === Anti-spam: the yourEmail hidden field === | + | === Anti-spam: the 'comments' hidden field === |
| Forms on public websites are often targets for "spambots" -- automated "spiders" that wander around the web looking for forms. The spambot puts its irrelevant message in whatever fields it can find, and submits the form in the hopes that the posted content will show up somewhere where it will be seen. These submissions would show up as bogus entries in your recruit database. Quite annoying. | Forms on public websites are often targets for "spambots" -- automated "spiders" that wander around the web looking for forms. The spambot puts its irrelevant message in whatever fields it can find, and submits the form in the hopes that the posted content will show up somewhere where it will be seen. These submissions would show up as bogus entries in your recruit database. Quite annoying. | ||
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| Spambots aren't very sophisticated, and they can be effectively defeated by using a "captcha", the most common example being to ask your users to type in the text from a distorted text image. This works, but it's irritating to your users. We're using a simpler method called a "honeypot". We add a field to your form that users can't see, but that the spambots can't easily identify as a hidden field. The spambots will typically insert content into this field. If the field isn't empty, it's usually a spambot submission, and we reject it with an appropriate error message. It contains a label that instructs users of alternative browsers (handicapped-accessible screen readers, for example) to leave the field empty. This method is very effective, and causes no problems for legitimate users. | Spambots aren't very sophisticated, and they can be effectively defeated by using a "captcha", the most common example being to ask your users to type in the text from a distorted text image. This works, but it's irritating to your users. We're using a simpler method called a "honeypot". We add a field to your form that users can't see, but that the spambots can't easily identify as a hidden field. The spambots will typically insert content into this field. If the field isn't empty, it's usually a spambot submission, and we reject it with an appropriate error message. It contains a label that instructs users of alternative browsers (handicapped-accessible screen readers, for example) to leave the field empty. This method is very effective, and causes no problems for legitimate users. | ||
| - | To implement the honeypot, simply add the following hidden span containing the empty field yourEmail in your form: | + | To implement the honeypot, simply add the following hidden span containing the empty field 'comments' in your form: |
| <code html> | <code html> | ||
| <span style="display:none;visibility:hidden;"> | <span style="display:none;visibility:hidden;"> | ||
| - | <label for="yourEmail"> | + | <label for="comments"> |
| Ignore this text box. It is used to detect spaambots. | Ignore this text box. It is used to detect spaambots. | ||
| If you enter anything into this text box, your submission | If you enter anything into this text box, your submission | ||
| will be rejected. | will be rejected. | ||
| </label> | </label> | ||
| - | <input type="text" name="yourEmail" size="1" value="" /> | + | <input type="text" name="comments" size="1" value="" /> |
| </span> | </span> | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
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| + | Note: prior to October 2010, the form element name for the honeypot field was 'yourEmail'. This was deemed problematic because some automatic form population tools (like the one built into the Google Chrome browser) were over ambitious and were putting an email in the honeypot field as well, generating false positives. | ||
| === Setting Up the Country Code Select Box=== | === Setting Up the Country Code Select Box=== | ||
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