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I'm reading this page: http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-recaptcha-problem.ht...

Why don't they just invalidate the current challenge when a new one is requested? :S



There's no session ID for current user. They can try to use IP as identifier. Admins can send remoteip to google to prevent spoofing but that parameter is optional and I suppose they don't rely on it.


... Okay, why not establish a session then?


Would require an extra roundtrip... Problem is that you get challenges with client side and solve it with server side. It's website who should go, get a challenge for you, put it in your session cookie and make sure you don't go and get another one. Which complicates it a lot




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