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Using CAPTCHA to protect your WebSphere Commerce application

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Level: Intermediate

Marco Deluca (madeluca@ca.ibm.com), Solution Architect, IBM 

27 Feb 2008

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Computer automated attacks on your Web site is costly and most sites today do little to protect against these assaults. Adding a CAPTCHA to your site will steer away most computer automated browsing in sections of your site you want to protect, such as user registration or tell-a-friend emailing. This tutorial describes how to integrate two CAPTCHA solutions into your existing WebSphere® Commerce application to protect your Web site against computer automated attacks.

In this tutorial

This tutorial provides examples of how to integrate a CAPTCHA into your existing WebSphere Commerce application. It demonstrates two solutions:

  • reCAPTCHA
  • SimpleCaptcha


Objectives

  • Learn what a CAPTCHA is and why more and more Web sites are starting to use this technology.

  • Learn the benefits and drawbacks of different CAPTCHA technologies.

  • Integrate two distinctly different CAPTCHA technologies with WebSphere Commerce.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is written for Java™ programmers. You need to be familiar with the WebSphere Commerce model-view-controller extensions model. Basic HTML and JSP skills are also required.


System requirements

To create the examples in this tutorial, we used WebSphere Commerce version 6. You can use the previous version of WebSphere Commerce. This tutorial customizes the ConsumerDirect store.



Duration

1 hour per CAPTCHA integration


Formats

html, pdf



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