Register Captcha: a CGI script to do EPrints registrations with Authen::Captcha

Muldoon, Mark (2007) Register Captcha: a CGI script to do EPrints registrations with Authen::Captcha.

	ReadMe about installation and use of script - ASCII 2kB (161 downloads)
	register_captcha a CGI script for EPrints registration - ASCII 13kB (303 downloads)

Item Type: Script

EPrints Version: EPrints 2 > EPrints 2.3 > EPrints 2.3.13

License: GPL

Date: 8 March 2007

Creators Name: Muldoon, Mark

Department: School of Mathematics

Institution: Univeristy of Manchester

Date Deposited: 12 Mar 2007 11:02

Last Modified: 14 May 2010 12:18

Wiki Page: Files/Register Captcha: a CGI script to do EPrints registrations with Authen::Captcha

Abstract

Our EPrints server was receiving a steady trickle of user registrations from people with names like "Replica Rolex". Although it is entertaining to imagine that there may be people calling themselves after watches, I suspect that my new users are mostly robots, and so I wrote this CGI script, a modified version of the register script found in the cgi directory of an EPrints 2.3 installation, to add a captcha test to deter registrations from non-humans. There are two files here, the script itself and a ReadMe file: both are plain text. One can see the script in action at http://eprints.ma.man.ac.uk/perl/register

Requirements

In addition to the script here, one needs the perl modules GD and Authen::Captcha

Installation

See the ReadMe file.

Copyright

See comments at the beginning of the script.

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