#70 closed enhancement

idea: integrate captcha into some furls — at Version 1

Reported by: samuelstoller Owned by: somebody
Priority: minor Milestone: undecided
Component: code Version: 0.4.0
Keywords: uri captcha Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description (last modified by zooko)

Often when I share data with other people on the internet I do the following:

  • Put the data in a directory on my web server.
  • Add some .htaccess fu to my webserver to get basic auth protection of the data
  • Mail the people a link to the data, I also put on a line following the URL the username and password necessary to access the data.

This way if a search engine grabs the link, the data won't be accessible to the whole internet. (A human needs to read the email message and locate the http auth data necessary to follow the link.)

Furls could emulate this captcha like behavior:

  • have an 'incomplete' furl type; missing some critical bytes, but complete enough that the client can figure out whats going on to prompt the user for a key.
  • the furl would be completed with a 'key' which a user can pass out-of-link.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed at 2007-07-01T03:22:59Z by zooko

  • Description modified (diff)

Just fixing the wikiformatting thing.

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