Custom Captcha

We need our own captcha system.

  • WIth a unique system it is far less likely for a bot writer to bother making the effort to include our faucets.
  • Google captcha really sucks, frequently presents 5 or more screens of captcha which usually it says you’re wrong, no matter what, and then gives you the slow fade captchas. Waste of time and very off-putting for users.
  • With our own captcha system we can create ways to defeat the captcha-solving sweatshops, for example by telling users (in a previous page or layer) to ignore the captcha content and instead click on e.g. the four corner images. If that changes periodically it should competely screw up the bots. Also if we know the true solutions, we could know which users are using a bot.

Here are some ideas, intended for WP but generally applicable anyway cos it’s just PHP etc. And below is a video about one that looks very good, most of them are things like math puzzles and look very amateur. Code is included – open in youtube it’s in the description. Also downloaded and attached here. Unfortunately he is not using english depite the title being in english.

This one has a link to code in the description.

Previous Attempts

We have a custom plug-in for roflfaucet.com which changes the password of the WP password protectede pages at a set interval. It’s not really very good, and needs some adjustment. The below may or may not be enlightening…

//Set the WordPress password-protected post cookie expiry time
/**

Filters the life span of the post password cookie.

By default, the cookie expires 10 days from creation. To turn this
into a session cookie, return 0.

@since 3.7.0

@param int $expires The expiry time, as passed to setcookie().
*/
add_filter( 'post_password_expires', 'acp_custom_post_password_expires' );
function acp_custom_post_password_expires( $expires ) {
return time() + 30; // Expire in 30 seconds
}

Here you need to update time, now its

return time() + 30; // Expire in 30 seconds
change this to
return time() + 600; // Expire in 10 minutes
Previous attempts archived below….

There is a password in the videos. We need somewhere for people to enter that password. I tried using WP’s password pages but its turning out too complex and should be really simple.

Wisdmlabs provides a nice script for a math problem, a simple text q&a should be even simpler I think but I can’t do it!

This would mean I can get rid of wordpress and work on the embedded faucetinabox instead, so it will all be in the one page.

To Add a Simple Mathematical CAPTCHA, you can use the below code:

  1. Generate the Equation and Save the Result: The below code will generate two random numbers, and create an addition or subtraction equation.
session_start(); $digit1 = mt_rand(1,20); $digit2 = mt_rand(1,20); if( mt_rand(0,1) === 1 ) { $math = "$digit1 + $digit2"; $_SESSION['answer'] = $digit1 + $digit2; } else { $math = "$digit1 - $digit2"; $_SESSION['answer'] = $digit1 - $digit2; }
  1. Display the Equation in your Form: You need to display the generated equation as part of your form.
<?php echo $math; ?> = <input name="answer" type="text" />
  1. Validate the Text Entered by the User: The final step is to validate whether the value entered by the user is correct, or not.
<?php session_start(); if ($_SESSION['answer'] == $_POST['answer'] ) { // value entered is correct } else { // value is incorrect, kindly try again }

Attempt

I’ll see if I can fumble through it

session_start(); $digit1 = password; { $_SESSION[‘answer’] = password }

then into page:

<?php echo $digit1; ?> = <input name=”answer” type=”text” />

validation:

<?php session_start(); if ($_SESSION[‘answer’] == $_POST[‘answer’] ) { // value entered is correct } else { // value is incorrect, kindly try again }

hmmm http://btcvic.win/tools/ -the captcha thing stores the captchas in showCaptcha.php or something, and displays it in the faucet page, http://btcvic.win/