What is the need to verify reCaptcha in the server side?












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I am implementing google reCaptcha. In the Google documentation, they say the way to do it. The documentation suggests server side validation of captcha. I wanted to know why we need to verify it in the server side as it is already verified in the UI side from the google server. Is it a suggested to implement captcha in the UI side alone with no validation in the server? What are the problems(if any) if done in UI alone.










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    I am implementing google reCaptcha. In the Google documentation, they say the way to do it. The documentation suggests server side validation of captcha. I wanted to know why we need to verify it in the server side as it is already verified in the UI side from the google server. Is it a suggested to implement captcha in the UI side alone with no validation in the server? What are the problems(if any) if done in UI alone.










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      I am implementing google reCaptcha. In the Google documentation, they say the way to do it. The documentation suggests server side validation of captcha. I wanted to know why we need to verify it in the server side as it is already verified in the UI side from the google server. Is it a suggested to implement captcha in the UI side alone with no validation in the server? What are the problems(if any) if done in UI alone.










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      I am implementing google reCaptcha. In the Google documentation, they say the way to do it. The documentation suggests server side validation of captcha. I wanted to know why we need to verify it in the server side as it is already verified in the UI side from the google server. Is it a suggested to implement captcha in the UI side alone with no validation in the server? What are the problems(if any) if done in UI alone.







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          a example would be: you're creating a register form and want to prevent bots to create a account on your site, you need to verify it serverside, because in the background you're sending a request which will look something like this:



          POST /register 1.1 HTTP
          Host: www.example.com

          {"username":"example","email:"hey@gmail.de","captcha-token":"123984f729340fmu2q34f9"}


          and if you dont send the captcha-token with the request or the server doesnt validate it, this bot could just spam this request without loading the frontend page. Please mind in head, that bots dont visit your "UI" (frontend page). Just verify everything serverside like text length, bad characters, rate limits...






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            a example would be: you're creating a register form and want to prevent bots to create a account on your site, you need to verify it serverside, because in the background you're sending a request which will look something like this:



            POST /register 1.1 HTTP
            Host: www.example.com

            {"username":"example","email:"hey@gmail.de","captcha-token":"123984f729340fmu2q34f9"}


            and if you dont send the captcha-token with the request or the server doesnt validate it, this bot could just spam this request without loading the frontend page. Please mind in head, that bots dont visit your "UI" (frontend page). Just verify everything serverside like text length, bad characters, rate limits...






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              a example would be: you're creating a register form and want to prevent bots to create a account on your site, you need to verify it serverside, because in the background you're sending a request which will look something like this:



              POST /register 1.1 HTTP
              Host: www.example.com

              {"username":"example","email:"hey@gmail.de","captcha-token":"123984f729340fmu2q34f9"}


              and if you dont send the captcha-token with the request or the server doesnt validate it, this bot could just spam this request without loading the frontend page. Please mind in head, that bots dont visit your "UI" (frontend page). Just verify everything serverside like text length, bad characters, rate limits...






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                a example would be: you're creating a register form and want to prevent bots to create a account on your site, you need to verify it serverside, because in the background you're sending a request which will look something like this:



                POST /register 1.1 HTTP
                Host: www.example.com

                {"username":"example","email:"hey@gmail.de","captcha-token":"123984f729340fmu2q34f9"}


                and if you dont send the captcha-token with the request or the server doesnt validate it, this bot could just spam this request without loading the frontend page. Please mind in head, that bots dont visit your "UI" (frontend page). Just verify everything serverside like text length, bad characters, rate limits...






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                a example would be: you're creating a register form and want to prevent bots to create a account on your site, you need to verify it serverside, because in the background you're sending a request which will look something like this:



                POST /register 1.1 HTTP
                Host: www.example.com

                {"username":"example","email:"hey@gmail.de","captcha-token":"123984f729340fmu2q34f9"}


                and if you dont send the captcha-token with the request or the server doesnt validate it, this bot could just spam this request without loading the frontend page. Please mind in head, that bots dont visit your "UI" (frontend page). Just verify everything serverside like text length, bad characters, rate limits...







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