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Even though my blog is very low traffic, and that's probably part of why my approach is working, it has yet to receive a spambot comment after four years. I'm
by m_eiman 17y ago
Even though my blog is very low traffic, and that's probably part of why my approach is working, it has yet to receive a spambot comment after four years.
I'm guessing this is due to its... non-standard construction. It's pure XML plus an XSLT that transforms it into HTML on the client side.
A more sensible approach might be to use XSLT to transform just the FORM stuff on a "real" blog system, but I haven't tried that. If the bots are using real browsers when trawling the net and not just some regexps it'll provide no protection.
If you're curious it's over at http://eiman.tv/blog/ http://eiman.tv/blog/
- blasdel 17y agoI didn't believe you at first, but lo and behold, you're serving as Content-Type: text/xml, and there's actual client-side xslt! What do you do for IE? :)
- m_eiman 17y agoWhat did you call it, "IE"? Never heard of it... :] It hasn't been on my list of priorities. Might work in IE7 or IE8, but I haven't tried it.
- pmjordan 17y agoIE supports XSLT. Yes, even IE6.
- rythie 17y agoI remember playing with it in 2000 on IE5, though I remember having to download new version of MSXML for it. It might have even been the first browser to support it.