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Posted: March 1, 2017
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CAPTCHA handling for web-service
Hi,
We are using web-service (REST-post operation) currently to fetch some data. The web-service has decided to implement CAPTCHA on their end going forward.So basically any application calling this web-service will have to provide correct response to CAPTCHA in order to get request go through. Has anyone implemented something like this and suggest what are alternatives/approaches?
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Posted: 4 years ago
Thank you Santanu. You are right. I did find couple posts about CAPTCHA but it seems there is no way to get past CAPTCHA systematically unless something like token is implemented as you suggested. Lets see.
A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to share with Computers and Humans Apart) is a challenge-response test accustomed to decide if an individual is human or bot .
Captcha can be a program that protects websites from web-bots by generating tests that computer cannot pass but human can pass. And computers cannot decode the distorted words within a CAPTCHA
When you talk to any services via PRPC , its basically a machine interaction and not human. Hence, I dont think you will be able to pass this .
Alternate option could be to request the provider to make the access password protected. In that case ,you can obtain a secure user id and password and pass it as a token ..
Lets see what other has to say