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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Meta Why do I, a logged in user, have to solve a captcha to post?

We don't actually serve any captchas: it's all done by Cloudflare. Cloudflare runs a firewall that scans incoming requests and issues a captcha challenge to any that appear to be automated or malic...

posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar ArtOfCode‭ · 2021-04-07T16:23:39Z (almost 3 years ago)
We don't actually serve any captchas: it's all done by Cloudflare. Cloudflare runs a firewall that scans incoming requests and issues a captcha challenge to any that appear to be automated or malicious. The _exact_ rules it uses to do this aren't public, but we can tweak it some. It seems to trigger more often (though not always by any means) if you're posting code, particularly PHP. If you let me know the details of any request you've made that got hit with a captcha, I can have a look at the settings and try to identify any issues.