2016-08-03, 03:54
Oh - I'm not worried. <Laughing> Like I said I've been there before. There's maybe some easier ways to do this, maybe on a future revision.
I just noticed: On the "Cover your Area" page where you enter email address - that Captcha where you enter "TSqrb" is just static and not changing the challenge every time you submit the form - which is the whole point of a Captcha. At least not in my browser. So it's trivial to write a quick script that enters as many random emails as one wants, as fast as possible. For instance every random-generated email address string you want is perfectly valid at mailinator.com, and other services like that. So one could fill up that list as fast as Egon's server could respond to form submits, probably.
Somebody might want to see why that Captcha isn't working right - probably something simple in the page script.
So it could be that Egon isn't really closing in on 1100 requests after all, depending on how often that list is spoofed. Just a thought.
I just noticed: On the "Cover your Area" page where you enter email address - that Captcha where you enter "TSqrb" is just static and not changing the challenge every time you submit the form - which is the whole point of a Captcha. At least not in my browser. So it's trivial to write a quick script that enters as many random emails as one wants, as fast as possible. For instance every random-generated email address string you want is perfectly valid at mailinator.com, and other services like that. So one could fill up that list as fast as Egon's server could respond to form submits, probably.
Somebody might want to see why that Captcha isn't working right - probably something simple in the page script.
So it could be that Egon isn't really closing in on 1100 requests after all, depending on how often that list is spoofed. Just a thought.