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adding README.txt and use it in setup.py long_description
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date Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:21:47 -0500
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1 CAPTCHA Auth Middleware
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4 CAPTCHAauthmiddleware is a WSGI middleware python packages for putting
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5 CAPTCHAs on forms for unauthorized users (those that haven't logged in
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6 yet). If you aren't authorized -- in python terms, if remote_user is
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7 not set on the request -- then CAPTCHAs and a hidden key will be added
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8 to forms with ``method=POST``. You will be required to correctly
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9 solve the CAPTCHA in order to submit the POST request. Otherwise, the
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10 CAPTCHAauthmiddleware will stop your request and redirect you back to
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11 the form.
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14 What are CAPTCHAs? -or- I hate those things
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17 CAPTCHAs are admittedly imperfect ways of telling humans and computers
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18 apart. Presumedly if you are already identified (logged in), then the
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19 computer is satisfied that you are you. But what if you want to make
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20 an anonymous comment on someone's blog post? In a perfect world,
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21 there would be no CAPTCHAs. In the real world, there is SPAM. So if
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22 I want to protect my blog from SPAM-bots, I need to do something.
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23 Again, CAPTCHAs aren't perfect, but they're at least something.