โ˜… Preventing spam submitted through forms

1 ยท Freek Van der Herten ยท Jan. 7, 2019, 11 a.m.
When adding a form to a public site, there's a risk that spam bots will try to submit it with fake values. We recently released a new package, called laravel-honeypot, that can detect these spammy requests. How honeypots work # The majority of spam bots are pretty dumb. You can thwart most of them by adding an invisible field to your form that should never contain a value when submitted. Such a field is called a honeypot. These spam bots will fill all fields, including the honeypot. When a submi...