[Standards] CAPTCHAs in registration forms

[Gaston Dombiak]

Hey Peter,

XEP-4 defines a few field types. I think that we should create a new field type for media objects so that clients could render it appropriately.

I like the media element that you included in the data form. I think that servers may choose to include the image itself in the form field or provide a URI to get it.

I think I would expect the completed form to include a reply to the media field. In this case it would include the CAPTCHA value. Another choice, would be to just use the media field as a read-only field and then have another text field where the user could enter his CAPTCHA value.

Am I missing something here?

Regards,

  -- Gato

-----Original Message-----
From: standards-bounces at xmpp.org [mailto:standards-bounces at xmpp.org] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:01 PM
To: XMPP Extension Discussion List
Subject: [Standards] CAPTCHAs in registration forms

In order to fight abuse on the network, we need (among other things!)
CAPTCHAs and other computational puzzles in account registration forms:

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0158.html

But for that we need to figure out how to include media objects in data
forms. One proposal is XEP-0221:

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0221.html

However, in the last XMPP Council meeting Ralph Meijer raised some
concerns about including media directly in forms:

http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2008-May/018686.html

I tend to agree with Ralph, but we need to figure this out soon. So
let's discuss. :)

Peter

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