What's the funny text when I want a download?

ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
edited August 2004 in Community
Well it's image verification :)

All it's doing is just asking you to confirm a random string of characters before allowing you to download the file you want.

Why is it there?

It's to stop robot scripts and hotlinking to our files, using all our bandwidth and swamping our server :)

Comments

  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited August 2004
    And I thought Shorty had joined a satanic cult and was sending hidden messages.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    MediaMan wrote:
    And I thought Shorty had joined a satanic cult and was sending hidden messages.

    You've been playing microsoft CDs backwards for too long. ;D
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited August 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    You've been playing microsoft CDs backwards for too long. ;D


    Must be...I found that for Windows to install properly you must insert the CD upside down and reverse polarity on the drive.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    If you play a Windows CD backwards, it installs a Linux/Mac dual boot.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Cheers guys, total thread derailment one o' one by the staff here ;D
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited August 2004
    When I get a chance to take a pot shot or two at you...I'll chance getting banned by myself. :)
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    MediaMan wrote:
    When I get a chance to take a pot shot or two at you...I'll chance getting banned by myself. :)
    Revenge will be mine!

















    Eventually
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited August 2004
    Mediaman banned. :D:rarr: :bawling:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited August 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    Cheers guys, total thread derailment one o' one by the staff here ;D

    You mean there was a purpose to this thread?:D :eek2:;D
  • EQuitoEQuito SoCal, USA
    edited August 2004
    Hey Shorty,

    I can understand your reasons but could you please make the text more readable? like plain letters maybe... :D

    Thanks in advance. :cheers:
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Tas gotta be that way so an OCR application can't read it :(
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Dan, honestly the rendering engine sucks. I have to try sometimes three times to get it right. I've seen other image verification schemes that are much more human-legible but still OCR-proof. It will clearly say "05uO0" and then you're like "o", "O", or "0"?
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Dan, honestly the rendering engine sucks. I have to try sometimes three times to get it right. I've seen other image verification schemes that are much more human-legible but still OCR-proof. It will clearly say "05uO0" and then you're like "o", "O", or "0"?
    I had a tinker with the renderer today.. so theorectically.. it should be ok :)

    I also removed the number 0 from the sequence. As the 0 & o are the main issues, this should help :)
  • EQuitoEQuito SoCal, USA
    edited August 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    Tas gotta be that way so an OCR application can't read it :(
    Oh ok, I didn't know. Well thanks anyway cause now is much easy to read.

    :cheers:
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