Telerik.Web.UI.RadCaptcha

This control serves as spam protection mechanism. It implements 3 strategies: 1. Auto-detection - if this strategy is chosen, then we use predefined rules which decide whether the input comes from a robot or not. This strategy is not 100% secure and some sophisticated robots may pass it so it should be used in personal websites with low traffic and where spam robots are not very likely to drop by. If such robots are found to visit the site, the use of the more secure strategy is more advisable. 2. RadCaptcha - if this strategy is chosen, then an image with obfuscated text is displayed and the user is required to input this text in a textbox thus allowing the control to validate whether s/he is a robot or not. This is the most secure method to protect from spam but it is considered to be inaccessible because disabled people may not see the text in the image! TODO in future release: 3. Subscribe to anti-spam services. This last spam protection mechanism is used to validate the input against public or private web services which given the input return whether or not it is considered to be spam. Some services claim that they catch more than 90% of the spam so this type of protection is fairly secure and can be used in small to medium websites but not in large-scale websites.

Inheritance Hierarchy

• System.Object
• System.Web.UI.Control
• System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
• Telerik.Web.UI.RadWebControl : IControl, IControlResolver, IPostBackDataHandler, IScriptControl, ISkinnableControl
• Telerik.Web.UI.RadCaptcha : INamingContainer, IValidator

Properties

AccessKey String

Gets or sets the RadCaptcha text box access key.

AudioAccessKey String

Gets or sets the access key for the Get Audio Code link.

CaptchaAudioLinkButtonText String

Gets or sets the text of the LinkButton that gets the Captcha Audio Code.

CaptchaImage CaptchaImage

Gets the CaptchaImage object of RadCaptcha

CaptchaLinkButtonText String

Gets or sets the text of the LinkButton that generates new CaptchaImage.

CaptchaMaxTimeout Int32

Gets or sets the maximum number of minutes RadCaptcha will be cached and valid. If you're too slow, you may be a RadCaptcha hack attempt. Set to zero to disable.

CaptchaTextBoxCssClass String

Gets or sets the CSS class applied to the RadCaptcha input textbox.

CaptchaTextBoxLabel String

Gets or sets the label which explains that the user needs to input the RadCaptcha text box.

CaptchaTextBoxLabelCssClass String

Gets or sets the CSS class to the label which explains that the user needs to input the RadCaptcha text box.

CaptchaTextBoxTitle String

Gets or sets the title of the RadCaptcha input textbox.

ClientIDMode ClientIDMode

This property is overridden in order to support controls which implement INamingContainer. The default value is changed to "AutoID".

CssClassFormatString String

The CssClass property will now be used instead of the former Skin and will be modified in AddAttributesToRender()

Display ValidatorDisplay

Gets or sets display behavior of error message.

DownloadAudioText String

Gets or sets the text displayed in the Download Audio Code link.

EnableAjaxSkinRendering String

Gets or sets the value, indicating whether to render the skin CSS files during Ajax requests

Remarks

If EnableAjaxSkinRendering is set to false you will have to register the needed control base CSS file by hand when adding/showing the control with Ajax.

Enabled Boolean

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Web server control is enabled.

EnableDownloadAudio Boolean

Defines whether Download Audio Code link should be rendered.

EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet Boolean

Gets or sets the value, indicating whether to render the link to the embedded base stylesheet of the control or not. This control features no skins, so this property must be set to false.

EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet Boolean

Gets or sets the value, indicating whether to render the link to the embedded base stylesheet of the control or not.

Remarks

If EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet is set to false you will have to register the needed control base CSS file by hand.

EnableEmbeddedScripts Boolean

Gets or sets the value, indicating whether to render script references to the embedded scripts or not.

Remarks

If EnableEmbeddedScripts is set to false you will have to register the needed Scripts files by hand.

EnableEmbeddedSkins Boolean

Gets or sets the value, indicating whether to render links to the embedded skins or not. This control features no skins, so this property must be set to false.

EnableEmbeddedSkins String

Gets or sets the value, indicating whether to render links to the embedded skins or not.

Remarks

If EnableEmbeddedSkins is set to false you will have to register the needed CSS files by hand.

EnableMissingPluginNotification Boolean

Defines whether notification panel for missing audio plug-in should be displayed if one is not installed on the client's machine.

EnableRefreshImage Boolean

Gets or sets a bool value indicating whether or not the RadCaptchaImage can be refreshed. The "rcRefreshImage" CSS class should be used for changing the skinning of the LinkButton, that generates the new image.

EnableRippleEffect Boolean

Returns true if ripple effect should be added

ErrorMessage String

The error message text generated when the condition being validated fails.

ForeColor Color

Gets or sets the fore color of the error message.

HttpHandlerUrl String

Specifies the URL of the HTTPHandler that serves the captcha image.

Remarks

The HTTPHandler should either be registered in the application configuration file, or a file with the specified name should exist at the location, which HttpHandlerUrl points to.

                   If a file is to serve the files, it should inherit the class Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource

IgnoreCase Boolean

Gets or sets a bool value indicating whether the RadCaptcha should ignore the case of the letters or not.

ImageStorageLocation CaptchaImageStorage

Gets or sets the storage medium for the CaptchaImage.

Remarks

When the image is stored in the session the RadCaptcha HttpHandler definition (in the web.config file) must be changed from type="Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource" to type="Telerik.Web.UI.WebResourceSession" so that the image can be retrieved from the Session.

InvisibleTextBoxLabel String

Gets or sets the invisible textbox strategy label text.

IsSkinSet String

For internal use.

IsValid Boolean

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user-entered content in the RadCaptcha control passes validation.

MinTimeout Int32

Gets or sets the minimum number of seconds the form must be displayed before it is valid. If you're too fast, you must be a robot.

MissingPluginText String

Gets or sets the text displayed in the MissingPlugin download link.

OnClientLoad String

Gets or sets the name of the JavaScript function that will be called when the RadCaptcha is loaded on the page.

ProtectionMode ProtectionStrategies

Gets or sets which strategies are/to be used for automatic robot discovery.

RefreshImageAccessKey String

Gets or sets the access key for generating new captcha image.

RegisterWithScriptManager Boolean

Gets or sets the value, indicating whether to register with the ScriptManager control on the page.

Remarks

If RegisterWithScriptManager is set to false the control can be rendered on the page using Web Services or normal callback requests/page methods.

RenderMode RenderMode

Specifies the rendering mode of the control. Setting the mode to Lightweight will yield HTML 5/CSS 3 html and css.

Remarks

Lightweight rendering mode might change the outlook of the component in some older browsers that don't support CSS3/HTML5.

ResolvedRenderMode RenderMode

Returns resolved RenderMode should the original value was Auto

RuntimeSkin String

Gets the real skin name for the control user interface. If Skin is not set, returns "Default", otherwise returns Skin.

Skin String

Gets or sets the skin name for the control user interface.

Remarks

If this property is not set, the control will render using the skin named "Default". If EnableEmbeddedSkins is set to false, the control will not render skin.

TabIndex Int16

Gets or sets the tab index of the RadCaptcha text box.

TextBoxDecoration WebControlDecorator

Composite property containing decoration options of the inner TextBox control

TextBoxLabelDecoration WebControlDecorator

Composite property containing decoration options of the inner Label control

ValidatedTextBox TextBox

Gets the TextBox that is being validated by the RadCaptcha.

ValidatedTextBoxID String

Gets or sets the ID of the textbox to be validated, when only the RadCaptcha image is rendered on the page.

ValidatedTextControl ITextControl

Gets the ITextControl that is being validated by the RadCaptcha.

ValidationGroup String

Gets or sets the validation group.

Methods

ApplyConditionalRendering

Use this from RenderContents of the inheritor

Returns

System.Void

ControlPreRender

Code moved into this method from OnPreRender to make sure it executed when the framework skips OnPreRender() for some reason

Returns

System.Void

EvaluateIsValid

Determines whether the RadCaptcha control is valid.

Returns

System.Boolean The bool value that indicates whether the RadCaptcha is valid.

FindTextBox

Searches for the validated Text control

Returns

System.Web.UI.Control A control that gets validated.

GetEmbeddedSkinNames

Returns the names of all embedded skins. Used by Telerik.Web.Examples.

Returns

System.Collections.Generic.List1`

GetValidationCssClass

Gets the CSS class set to the RadCaptcha after validation occurs. If RadCaptcha.IsValid=true, the "rcValid" is returned and "rcInvalid" when the captcha is not valid.

Parameters

isValid System.Boolean

Bool value indicating whether the user entered the correct value.

Returns

System.String Returns "rcValid" if the captcha is valid (RadCaptcha.IsValid=true), otherwise "rcInvalid".

LoadClientState

Loads the client state data

Parameters

clientState System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary{System.String,System.Object}

Returns

System.Void

LoadPostData

Executed when post data is loaded from the request

Parameters

postDataKey System.String

postCollection System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection

Returns

System.Boolean

OnCaptchaValidate

Raises the CaptchaValidate event before the default validation executes.

Parameters

e Telerik.Web.UI.CaptchaValidateEventArgs

A CaptchaValidateEventArgs that contains the event data.

Returns

System.Void

RaisePostDataChangedEvent

Executed when post data changes should invoke a changed event

Returns

System.Void

RegisterCssReferences

Registers the CSS references

Returns

System.Void

RegisterScriptControl

Registers the control with the ScriptManager

Returns

System.Void

SaveClientState

Saves the client state data

Returns

System.String

Validate

Performs validation of the RadCaptcha control.

Returns

System.Void