Great writeup, exactly what I was looking for. Your examples were spot on and I really enjoyed your reasoning.

This wasn’t exactly what I needed, but it got me 95% there and saved me a lot of trouble.

You may be right about Harish being a bot. I considered that, and ultimately decided there was less than a 50% chance of it being true. If so, it is, as you note, quite clever.

I chose to err on the side of believing that Harish was just a decent individual trying to market his company’s services. If I chose to be fooled, well, it wouldn’t be the first time.

Notice how he doesn’t actually address the content of the post, merely referring to it as an “experience summary”–terms that could be applied to almost any blog post.

Also note how he includes the link to his website three times. And note that the **product** he is **promoting** has nothing to do with Django–it’s written for a totally different platform.

My guess is “Harish” is really a spam bot programmed to leave comments on blog posts that it infers are discussions regarding captchas.

It’s pretty ironic the double standard most people have regarding promotion. My guess is most folks would feel significantly uncomfortable writing a comment as self-promotional as Harish’s, but when Harish does it we don’t bat an eye.

Oh yeah, thanks for writing this blog post.

captcha_error = “”

if request.method == ‘POST’:

## etc..

is that inserted into the view JavaScript code itself or is that in handler method on top? I’m trying to use reCaptcha with Python but having trouble getting request.META['request_challenge_field'].

Thanks a lot for explaining the setup and showing the view, it was very helpful!

- Farhan

Thanks for writing about your company’s captcha control.

From a cursory reading, it looks like a nice solution for a .NET shop. But TrenchMice is written in Django running on Linux!

Your free “RND Plate” service might be applicable. (Why’d you give it that odd name?) But we’re happy with reCAPTCHA’s availability, strength, and the small social service it performs.

Yes, I did read that section. But reCAPTCHA’s styling with the white theme is sufficient for our needs, so we didn’t feel the need to use your custom theme hook.

Our captcha images heretofore haven’t stylistically been anything to write home about. What I didn’t say, but should have clearly said, is that reCAPTCHA is slicker looking than our simple blue rectangle, so it’s actually an improvement.

If we sometime have time to burn (ha!), we’ll look at better styling for it.

You wrote a nice experience summary.. and enjoyed reading it, since it was in the area of my recent interests. CAPTCHA.

We developed a captcha control for .net2.0 after experiences with other captchas and if you may be interested, you try downloading it from http://www.floresense.com.. I will be happy to have feedback from a person like you using it.

We also have a free, simple captcha service that might be interesting for small sites as well.

You can find these at our website http://www.floresense.com

Thanks for your time