CATCHA was Re: Erlang port to the Java Virtual Machine

[Ernie Makris]

Hi,

Well, since you are asking for suggestions, how about spawning a script
to generate N captcha images as well
as their details, then have a gen_server serve these up and replenish
them when they get low. I would use os:cmd to spawn the script and dump
the files somewhere. Keep it simple rather than using jinterface. Let
the script do one thing only.

Hope that helps.

Thanks
Ernie

Yariv Sadan wrote:
>> Getting a CATCHA into yaws is something I have been looking at as
>> well in a
>> desultory sort of fashion...
>>
>> It seems to me that C would probably be the language of choice - the
>> selection/response of text for obsfuction part would be straight
>> forward in
>> Erlang, but the graphical munginess and distortion/colourbanding of
>> fonts-as-
>> beziers must be a solved problem in some C library - but which one?
>>
>> Any thoughts from someone less idle than me would be welcome ;->
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
> Yes, I sort of had the same issue in mind when I started looking at
> easily integrating with Java. I know of jcaptcha, which does the trick
> (http://jcaptcha.sourceforge.net/main.html). The reason I looked at
> Java rather than C is because jinterface actually seemed pretty easy
> to use, Java is easier than C (the performance difference isn't very
> relevant here), and Java has a library for almost everything in the
> universe (well, so does C, but at least Java wins on the ease front).
> The solution I had in mind would be to have a CAPTCHA server written
> in Java that communicates with Erlang over jinterface. When yaws needs
> to display a CAPTCHA, it would send a message to the CAPTCHA server
> and get back the binary CAPTCHA plus its textual meaning. For
> efficiency and speed, yaws, could request a number of CAPTCHAS at once
> and cache them for future requests.
> If you have any other ideas in this area, let me know!
>
> Thanks
> Yariv
>