Setting Up Auto-Submission Protection (Without CAPTCHA)

Master Form V4 has form hijacking protection built in and automatic submission protection is available.

Hijacking is referred to, here, as taking over the script and sending spam to many others, possibly thousands, by subverting the header lines of outgoing email — all sent from your server.

Automatic submission protection is a bit different. Because it does take some server resources and some people might not want it (for now), it needs to be turned on to be effective. Automatic submission is referred to, here, as using a robot to submit the form, the submission being emailed to whoever would normally get the form submission email.

Auto-submission protection is available from Master Form V4 version 4.5 and later.

How To Set Up Auto-Submission Protection

To turn automatic submission on, two things need to be done, in this order:

Step 1:

Click the control panel's "Auto-Submit Protection" link.

The fourth line from the top, you'll see a "[click to reveal instructions and uncover checkbox]" link. Click that. It will reveal more content, including a checkbox, but don't check it yet; wait until step 2.

A little further down, four lines below the checkbox, you'll see a "[click to reveal]" link. Click that.

You'll find several textarea boxes of text. Select the one with the JavaScript code and copy it to your clipboard.

Now, paste that JavaScript into each form that uses that particular installation of Master Form V4. The code should be pasted somewhere below the last form field and above the cancel </form> tag.

Each form must have that code as a first step. Any that do not will break if step 2 is done before the forms get the code.

Step 2:

Now, we can check that checkbox.

To find the checkbox again, click the control panel's "Auto-Submit Protection" link and then the "[click to reveal instructions and uncover checkbox]" link.

Once the current forms all have auto-submission protection, it's easy to keep up. Simply pop the JavaScript into any new forms you create and they're automatically protected.

For your convenience, recent versions of Master Form V4 have a link to click for automatically updating to the latest version.

Will Bontrager