Removing captchagen due to incompatabilities

app.js

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ app.configure('production', function(){
 
 app.get('/', routes.index);
 app.get('/partials/:name', routes.partials);
-app.get('/captcha.png', routes.captcha);
 
 // JSON API
 

package.json

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "express": "3.0.x",
     "jade": ">= 0.0.1",
-    "marked": "0.2.5",
-    "captchagen": "0.0.2"
+    "marked": "0.2.5"
   }
 }

public/js/controllers.js

@@ -13,14 +13,10 @@ function IndexCtrl($scope, $http, $location) {
     $http.post('/api/post', $scope.form).
       success(function(data) {
 
-        // We always want to reset the captcha, but if the previous entry was invalid,
-        // we should NOT reset the postbox and markdown-preview.
-        if (data.captcha !== false) {
-          // empty the postbox
-          $('#postbox').val('').height('50px');
-          // reset the preview
-          $('#markdown-preview').html('');
-        }
+        // empty the postbox
+        $('#postbox').val('').height('50px');
+        // reset the preview
+        $('#markdown-preview').html('');
 
         $location.path('/');
         $http.get('/api/posts').
@@ -29,12 +25,6 @@ function IndexCtrl($scope, $http, $location) {
           });
       });
 
-    // reset the captcha image
-    $('#captcha-image').remove();
-    $('#captcha-input').before('<img src="/captcha.png" id="captcha-image"></img>');
-    // reset the captcha input
-    $('#captcha-input').val('');
-
   };
 
 }

routes/api.js

@@ -34,30 +34,9 @@ exports.post = function (req, res) {
 
 // POST
 exports.addPost = function(req, res, next) {
-  console.log(req.session);
-  // the user's answer
-  var theirCaptcha = req.body.captcha;
-  if (!theirCaptcha) {
-    return next("Missing captcha input");
-  }
-  if (theirCaptcha == req.session.captcha) {
-    // valid human
-    delete req.session.captcha;
-    req.session.isHuman = true;
-
-    // push to posts
-    data.posts.push(req.body);
-    res.json(req.body);
-  } else {
-    // invalid human
-    delete req.session.isHuman;
-    req.session.isHuman = false;
-
-    // notify user that catcha is invalid
-    // should give the option to NOT remove message from #postbox
-    data.captcha = 'invalid';
-    res.json({captcha: false});
-  }
+  // push to posts
+  data.posts.push(req.body);
+  res.json(req.body);
 };
 
 // PUT

routes/index.js

@@ -10,13 +10,4 @@ exports.index = function(req, res){
 exports.partials = function(req, res) {
   var name = req.params.name;
   res.render('partials/' + name);
-};
-
-exports.captcha = function(req, res, next) {
-  var c = require('captchagen'),
-  captcha = c.generate(),
-  sess = req.session;
-  sess.captcha = captcha.text();
-  res.type('image/png');
-  res.end(captcha.buffer());
 };

views/partials/addPost.jade

@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@ form(class='navbar-form pull-left')
   textarea(ng-model='form.text', id='postbox', class='span4', type='text', placeholder='Whatcha workin on?', ui-jq='autosize')
   include previewPost
   p
-    img(src='/captcha.png', id='captcha-image')
-    input(ng-model='form.captcha', type='text', id='captcha-input')
     button(ng-click='submitPost()', class='btn btn-primary pull-right', type='submit') Post