CAPTCHA security check
To prevent our servers from being abused by spammers as a tool to send spam emails, PDBj's services which require users to validate that they are actual
human users and not secretly bots trying to send thousands of emails per second. These services use the so called CAPTCHA check, which is an acronym for
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (more information can be
found here).
The following services display a CAPTCHA check and require the user to validate themselves:
The cancel button has the following functionality depending on the service:
Within a single session (the session is terminated by reloading or closing the page), users are only required to validate themselves once.
The following services display a CAPTCHA check and require the user to validate themselves:
- Contact page
- Structure navigator (only when supplying the optional email address)
The cancel button has the following functionality depending on the service:
Service | Cancel button text | Functionality |
Contact page | Cancel | Cancels the submission of the form and the user will be shown the contact page (with the user's input content). |
Structure navigator | Cancel email notification | Cancels sending the email notification after completing the job. The job itself won't be cancelled and the user will be informed via the job manager notification system. |
Within a single session (the session is terminated by reloading or closing the page), users are only required to validate themselves once.
Created: 2014-09-19 (last edited: more than 1 year ago)