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I implemented that with some success. Much more successful was to simply require Javascript.



Interesting. Why do the bots run with JS turned off?


To be clear, we're talking about an automated process that is looking for forms to fill out. It's far easier and faster to simply scrape the HTML of a page and look for the <form> and <input> tags to figure out what to submit than to actually fire up something that resembles a real browser.




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