Re: CAPTCHA image validation in web form

Easy, Walden, Easy!!!

I was the one that suggested using existing print technology on the i - not a bad thing, generally speaking, and also just a thought piece.

Also, if the decision IS set not to use those other technologies, the OP does need some way to do this. Your point is well taken in general but might not help the OP this time.

Enjoy your coffee, my friend!

Vern

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From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

some experiences using captcha image validation in web forms?
please not php not python not java....

I've stayed out of this, but after a long weekend of relaxation I can't
resist. Why in blazes would you not look at PHP or Python or Java for
this solution. What a disservice you're doing to your company. If this
isn't your decision, but rather your boss's decision, what a ridiculous
decision he/she is making! This is precisely why the community is having
so many problems "proving" to the higher ups that we should keep the
iSeries around and that it's a modern capable application environment.

If you were programming in PHP or Java or .Net you probably wouldn't
even have asked the question, you'd have gone to your favourite place
and grabbed code that someone else had designed, written and debugged.
And if for some reason you wanted to roll your own it would have been
rather straight forward to new up a Bitmap object and draw on it in a
twisted font and make a new image each time.

Instead you're looking at some twisted error prone way of using a fixed
set of images, or outputting some text and using HPT to "print" that
text and then convert to a TIFF or some other messed up approach. Will
this work? Sure. Will is work well? Probably not. Is it a wise
application of your time and company's resources? Certainly not.

I guess as the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer... The iSeries
is a Home-Depot of tools, but for the most part people are only willing
to use the 3 tools they have in their toolbox to solve a problem, namely
RPG, DDS and CL.

Sorry... off to have more coffee... Perhaps the caffeine will calm me
down. :-)

-Walden

PS. Guillermo, I may have responded to your post in particular, but
please don't take this as a personal attack, you're just the proverbial
straw.

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Walden H Leverich III
Tech Software
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WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.TechSoftInc.com

Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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