Flood control in contact form
Mod Version: 1.00, by Lionel
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| vB Version: 3.0.7 | Rating:  (1 vote - 5.00 average) |
Installs: 14 |
| Released: 20 Jul 2005 | Last Update: Never | Downloads: 19 |
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My postfix recently was being invaded by the Texas_Holdem people mass mailing thousands of junk mails to people and taking all my resources, causing my site to go down all the time. After careful examination I determined that they were using the sendmessage.php.
A ticket to support suggested to me that I upgraded to 3.50 (that they will not also support) because flood control was added to that version.
Since I am not even near comtemplating the idea of such an upgrade, I realized also that they gave me the answer to my problem.
This hack is really not mine. I just remembered AnNet hack for image verification before posting.
So I simply adapted it to sendmessage.php and now, unregistered cannot use the sendmessage.php without typing in that verification image. It could also be made for evryone.
I receive a lot of help in this community. Since this was a major problem for me and the solution was so simple, I am posting it in case it helps someone else.
A ticket to support suggested to me that I upgraded to 3.50 (that they will not also support) because flood control was added to that version.
Since I am not even near comtemplating the idea of such an upgrade, I realized also that they gave me the answer to my problem.
This hack is really not mine. I just remembered AnNet hack for image verification before posting.
So I simply adapted it to sendmessage.php and now, unregistered cannot use the sendmessage.php without typing in that verification image. It could also be made for evryone.
I receive a lot of help in this community. Since this was a major problem for me and the solution was so simple, I am posting it in case it helps someone else.
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