[Catalyst] Automated testing of Captcha?

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:07:15PM +0100, Michele Beltrame wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > He wanted to get $c->captcha_string from *outside* of the Catalyst app.
> > You don't have $c there.  Also, he never said he was using
> > Catalyst::Plugin::Captcha.
> 
> Well, if he's completely outside the App, then this is likely not possible at
> all (if the CAPTCHA is well crafted). Isn't "no-access-to-non-humans" the whole
> point of the CAPTHA?

Outside the app class != outside the process.

In the case of Catalyst::Test you're normally in-process, which is why John's
solution works fine.

If you're outside, then either forcing the captcha to a particular string or
disabling it entirely are probably your only options - but that wasn't the
case here if you read carefully :)

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