em0ney / meteor-honeypot

Plugin to define a honeypot captcha template to protect your forms from spambots

Overview

This is a meteor package to provide a honeypot captcha to be used to protect your forms from spambots.

Contact forms and other forms on unauthenticated pages can be exploited by spambots to repeatedly generate form submissions.

A honeypot captcha is a field on the form that is hidden via CSS. When the form is submitted with the honeypot field populated, the form submission can be discarded.

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Installation

Install by typing meteor add em0ney:honeypot

Usage

Include Honeypot Fields

Within your form, to include the honeypot fields, reference the honeypot template:

{{> honeypot }}

Check and Remove Honeypot Fields

When dealing with a form submission, pass the form element or the whole template into the honeypot ishuman function:

if (Honeypot.isHuman(form)) {
  Honeypot.removeHoneypotFields(form);
  // Process form
} else {
  // Spambot submission
}