I'm using Akismet for my spam protection on my web page. It won't even let users post something like, "Hey guys check this out!". I was hoping that I could just get rid of links and have them check the posters IP to see if it had been logged, but not block something so simple.
Is there a way to decrease the harshness through Akismet? I'm using the .NET 2.0 library here http://www.codeplex.com/wikipage?ProjectName=AkismetApi
For questions about Akismet you are always welcome to drop us a line - http://akismet.com/contact/
For cases like this the first thing I suggest is making sure that you are sending the correct data for the Akismet API call - http://akismet.com/development/api/#comment-check - since sending wrong or insufficient data can reduce the accuracy.
Second, if Akismet makes a mistake you should be sending the data back via the Submit Ham and Submit Spam API calls. This allows the Akismet system to learn more about what you consider spam/not spam on your site.
I'd suggest not using Akismet at all and just managing it yourself. You could write a regex to remove the links from postings: http://www.jhartig.com/2010/02/perfect-regex-for-removing-links-when.html
Instead of using one of these anti-spam engines, have you thought about using Facebook the way TechCrunch does? It is very effectively at not allowing spam or flamewars because it's not anonymous.
The other things to use is ReCaptcha, to keep the bots out which is probably the cause of your spam problems in the first place. http://www.google.com/recaptcha
hey here are my two cents to the topic:
try something that webcrawlers hate!! something they can't understand at ALL!!
you guessed it right pal!! FLASH!!
If I were you would use something flash like: flexi commment or something
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After plenty of late nights and head scratching I have navigated the murky world of the 'Coinbase Pro API' and integrated it with a new trading app I have made. I have hit a snag however and am baffled as to why. Had a snoop around all the usual 'Google' hotspots and I can find similar questions but no answers. I hope someone can help?!
Simply put I want to do a conversion, see the seemingly simple endpoint to do so:
https://docs.cloud.coinbase.com/exchange/reference/exchangerestapi_postconversion
https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/conversions
Now; it's not an authentication issue etc. As mentioned, I have the API fully working in my app, accounts, orders, ticker etc, all no problem. Just conversions I have an issue with. I am posting the relevant variables as suggested:
Example:
{"to":"ETH","amount":"50.00","from":"BTC","profile_id":"my_profile_id"}
No matter what currencies I try, the response is always the same:
{"message":"Cannot convert BTC to ETH"}
With different coin ID's of course.
Full on drawing a blank here! Kind of a useless output from Coinbase?
I'd love to know if anyone has cracked this?
Thanks
Pete
Understood and thank you. After some back and forth with Coinbase support I found while conversion is possible in app, fee free, in API it’s an order with the relevant fees. A little frustrating but hopefully they will allow API conversion fee free soon 👍😊
"You can’t do a conversion unless their values are linked, such as USDC-USD. What you are looking to do is a market buy of some type, I would suggest a limit order as you can specify price options."
https://forums.coinbasecloud.dev/t/unable-to-successfully-convert-crypto-to-another-crypto/289
"You can’t do a conversion unless their values are linked, such as USDC-USD. How to determine if a conversion is linked, I'm not following this answer.
Is this what you mean?
{"to":"ETH-USD","amount":"50.00","from":"BTC-USD","profile_id":"my_profile_id"}
I am using asterisk 11.9.0 and i want to generate an outgoing call.I found that for outgoing i have to make a .call file and place it in a var/spool/asterisk/outgoing.I am following the link below
http://the-asterisk-book.com/1.6/call-file.html#call-file-parameter
my code is same as given in the above link,the above example uses only single fixed number to call.
My problem is that
i have to generate an outgoing to a number fetched from database(outgoing to new number everytime),so how to write the code of .call file for multiple numbers outgoing and how to pass these numbers fetched from database to .call file from my extensions.conf
Is there any way to do that.
I am new to asterisk.
Any help would be appreciated.
You can use vicidial.org software to do that things.
Note, it is very bad idea do outboudn dialler-like app in asterisk without understanding asterisk logic and very-hi skills in programming/database.
For more info you also can use this page
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+auto-dial+out
Might be easier using WombatDialer as it has a plain API where you can tell it what you want it to do and it will take care of the rest. We have a plain set up for outbound and it took maybe a couple of days from zero to what we have now. ViciDial would have been overkill.
On why rolling your own is not a great idea, the Wombat manual is quite clear: http://manuals.loway.ch/WD_UserManual-chunked/ch01.html#_why_was_wombatdialer_created
You could also use the AMI (Asterisk Manager Interface), would be easier to program with a deamon running in the back to control what gets dialed and the responses to those dials. Mora info here https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4817239.
suppose user navigated to silverlight page at root/myurl. When user presses f5 I would like the browser to fetch the content of root/, not root/myurl. Is this possible to accomplish?
What I would do is write a flag to your local storage that says, in effect, "'root/myurl' is the last URL I visited." And when when someone reloads "root/myurl", check to see if that flag exists. If it does, renavigate to "root/". It's a little complex, but something of that sort ought to work.
The other approach I usually take in these instances, where I find myself wanting behavior that doesn't match how the browser normally behaves, is to figure out why I'm doing things different from everyone else. Quite often (almost always), there's a better and more natural way to do it, if I'll just take a step back and figure out what I'm really wanting.
This is in C Language
I want to know how i can write a program to lookup all the input fields of a website. Any website. and then can fill them in. I can write the simple webbrowser in vbs but how can i analyse the input fields. even better would be is i could click the lookup field and it puts the name of it in a box..... that would be ideal.
Anyone can help? thanks :)
Are you sure you want to do this in C?
I ask because it is not easy. First of all, you need to be able to run the HTTP GET request against the webpage you wish to view. For this, you probably need libcurl; you definitely don't want to be writing from scratch at any rate.
Next, you need to process the html you get, finding all input fields. You do NOT want to do this using regular expressions, if anything for the sake of bobince's blood pressure. HTML is not a regular language is the bit you need to take away - you need an xml parser. Enter libxml. I'm sure there are other xml libraries out there, and even libraries for parsing html.
Finally, having done that (got the fields etc) you need to be able to populate them and submit the correct request as per the ACTION and METHOD parameters of the FORM.
This is of course assuming you know what the fields should be formatted with. And it also assumes nothing else is going on. If you have a javascript validated web form (I sincerely hope they're validating on the request too, but they might provide feedback via JS) you won't benefit from that (unless you're going to integrate JS, in which case you might as well write a browser).
This is not a trivial task and it is the reason there are accessibility standards for HTML, because otherwise it becomes tricky to interpret the form without human interaction.
Of course, this all assumes said html is well formed, which isn't always the case...
I might suggest another approach. BeautifulSoup is a well known Python web scraping library that works very well. Python as a language allows easier string manipulation too, which will dramatically cut down your development time. I'd suggest giving the need to use C some serious thought given the size and complexity of the task you want to undertake vs your need to get a result quickly. If you have a lot of time, by all means go for C.
I'm currently developing a website, into which I've included a filter that attempts to obfuscate any e-mail addresses present in the webpages it serves.
As it is now, it converts the addresses into images.
I've also seen a few other methods in use; some split the address into characters and use generated javascript to include it in the final document, but that requires javascript, so it's not that useful in my opinion. The upside is it can be used to create a working mailto-link.
Another method, quite similar to the above, uses hex-notation to markup the e-mail address. I'm not really convinced it will thwart any serious harvesters though.
Others utilize the human brains' ability to understand language, and will either replace characters like the #-symbol with words, or separate the host and the username etc.
My question now is, how reliable is my method, of using generated images (whose filename do not give the address away) against scrapers, when I'm not using any distortion on the text in the images? Should I prefer a different method?
And as a continuation: if I wan't a fallback method, just in case the image creation should fail for some reason, which would be the smartest way to go?
Here you'll find many ways of obfuscating emails, and their effectiveness.
Hope it helps!
My question now is, how reliable is my method, of using generated images (whose filename do not give the address away) against scrapers, when I'm not using any distortion on the text in the images?
I don't have any data to back that up, but I would say: Quite reliable. Harvesters can get millions of addresses using "conventional" means; I don't think it's economically feasible for them to do image processing just to get a handful more.
And as a continuation: if I wan't a fallback method, just in case the image creation should fail for some reason, which would be the smartest way to go?
Use a good spam filter. :-) No, seriously, it's really hard keeping a mail address hidden from harvesters.
one possibility is to continue using the image, but replace it with text and a mailto link if javascript is enabled.
As long as you don't name the image something obvious, like emailadress.png, you should be pretty safe - I think.
I think it's all about providing some kind of 'are you human test' before you display the email or display the email in a way that is itself a test.
Thinking along the same lines maybe providing a link as the email address and running the tests before displaying the email might be a solution too.
As a user, an image-obfuscated email address is almost as useless as no email address. Whatever method you choose, I should ideally be given a mailto link, second best is some sort of your.name.69 AT longwebsitewhosnameicanteasilytranscribe.net style address.