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Hasty Treat - Forms, Captchas, Honeypots, Dealing With Malicious Users and the Sad State of Contact Forms
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about forms, captchas, dealing with malicious users, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:00 - So you made a form: Contact form Sales form Email signup for newsletter Bug report Sign up for an account Password reset 03:00 - Now someone is going to: Have a bot that submits it Maliciously write a bot that submits thousands 04:14 -…
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