blocked from creating an account

[emperorjones]

I'm creating accounts with ZP and recently the website is not letting accounts get created. Proxies are used and good. I have not used ZP to create accounts on this particular site. I was doing it manually - and manual creation still works. Is there a way for a site to block ZP?

 

[rostonix]

Sure. A lot of resons can be.
Each site has different protection system.
Each of them may use javascript to check keyboard or mouse events for example

 

[emperorjones]

Thanks. Is there a thread here that I can review that discusses strategies to combat this generally?

 

[emperorjones]

I'm getting this error from the site: Error: Invalid spinner. Please try again. This usually happens because an automated script attempted to submit this form.

 

[rostonix]

Im not sure if there any thread with combined knowledge about that. What you can try: replace standard actions with emulation:
1) click on input fields with mouse emulation to make cursor appear:
for this you take leftinbrowser and topinbrowser property via action designer
then in javascript action you add some offest to both coordinates
then you use mouse emulation action to perform click
2) after click is made you can use keyboard emulation to type into field

 

[emperorjones]

Thanks, I'm using mouse and keyboard emulation for all navigation and inputs. Still being blocked.

I didn't use javascript for the offsets. Is that just so you won't always be clicking in the same space?

 

[rostonix]

I dont think that it matters.
What else can be: IP, proxy, browser headers.