What's he building in there?

April 09, 2004

Password Protect Comments

We're getting spammed by blog-spammers. Today an offensive couple of spams were posted. Greg called me to let me know so I could quickly delete them.

I'll be introducing a counter measure shortly. This one seems reasonable.

Free Moby

Added to /mt/lib/mt/app/comments.pm just above ip ban:

my $entry_password = uc $q->param('password')
or return $app->handle_error($app->translate(
"Password is required."));
if ( $entry_password ne "PASSWORD1" && $entry_password ne "PASSWORD2") {
return $app->handle_error($app->translate(
"Password is incorrect."));
}

Posted by Jeb at April 9, 2004 11:05 PM

Comments

I noticed it too and was going to e-mail you but then I figured you would get an e-mail based on the comment anyway. If you want you can give me privileges over your sites so I could delete offensive comments.

Posted by: UT at April 10, 2004 01:47 PM

Testing password protected comments.

Posted by: Me at April 16, 2004 11:26 PM

I was able to post a comment too!

Posted by: UT at April 16, 2004 11:58 PM

Note to self: 4 templates that include password field code:
/Library/WebServer/documents/mt-tmpl/individualentryarchive.tmpl
/Library/WebServer/documents/mt-tmpl/commentlisting.tmpl
/Library/WebServer/documents/mt-tmpl/commentpreview.tmpl
/Library/WebServer/documents/mt-tmpl/commenterror.tmpl

Posted by: Me at April 17, 2004 01:11 AM

Good ol' Charlie. Hey! We're still trying to finalize this next kid's name. Maybe I better hurry and go suggest Charlie to Jennifer.

Posted by: Greg at April 17, 2004 03:23 PM

Testing password for Greg... give them _ _ _ _.

Posted by: Jeb at April 18, 2004 10:46 PM
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