Re: [Cppcms-users] Why wikipp calls document.write() to generate simple <form> tag?

[Artyom B. <art...@gm...>]

It is simple spam robot filter.

i.e. most spam bots search HTML for form tag and look the post address
to send some garbage.
Most of them do not run JavaScript so they wouldn't find the address
to post data unless they
write specific code for wikipp - which is likely isn't something bot
writers would bother.

Simple but yet efficient anti-robot security layer.

Artyom

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:25 AM, CN <cn...@fa...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I noticed below part of file "page.tmpl" in wikipp long time ago.
>
>         <script type="text/javascript">
>         <!--
>                 document.write('<for')
>                 document.write('m actio')
>                 document.write('n="')
>                 document.write('<%= submit %>" me')
>                 document.write('thod="po')
>                 document.write('st">')
>         -->
>         </script>
>
> I have no idea about the moral of such design, but I did not ask why.  I
> think I should not keep pretending understanding it any more!  What is
> funny is that trying to figure out why, I ended up running into an
> article saying that document.write() doesn't work with Firefox when it
> encounter xhtml :-)
>
> Could anyone clarify for me:
> Why the most simple and straightforward HTML code "<form>" is not used
> instead?
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Best Regards,
> CN
>
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