This seems to be a ‘feature’ of the EE captcha system. If you refresh the page with the comment form then a new validation word is generated. It seems as if any words generated during your session will be accepted as valid! At least, that is what happens on my install 1.6.0 20070627. I’ll do some digging to see if I can figure out why this is happening.
I edited the lang.core.php file on two of my sites to reflect correct error messages with the new accessible captcha. One one of my sites, it works great with the new messages. On another site, it doesn’t work. I’ve done the same steps for each site yet one doesn’t change.
If I leave the captcha field blank, I get this message (even though I’ve changed the language core file to say something different)
In order to submit this form, you must complete the captcha field.
It should say:
You must answer the spam question correctly before the form can be submitted
It doesn’t really matter to me what the message says, I’m just curious as to why it would change correctly on one site, and not the other? Any ideas?
Hmm. Not really. Are both sites the same EE versions? Frankly, that shouldn’t matter but you never know. Do you wanna send me both of your lang files and I’ll have a look?
This seems to be a ‘feature’ of the EE captcha system. If you refresh the page with the comment form then a new validation word is generated. It seems as if any words generated during your session will be accepted as valid! At least, that is what happens on my install 1.6.0 20070627. I’ll do some digging to see if I can figure out why this is happening.
Cheers
Dry
Thanks a lot. I appreciate you checking into it.
Yes I have the same issue with this extension, I’m running ee 1.6.2
This seems to be a ‘feature’ of the EE captcha system. If you refresh the page with the comment form then a new validation word is generated. It seems as if any words generated during your session will be accepted as valid! At least, that is what happens on my install 1.6.0 20070627. I’ll do some digging to see if I can figure out why this is happening.
Cheers
Dry
Thanks a lot. I appreciate you checking into it.
Yes I have the same issue with this extension, I’m running ee 1.6.2
In reference to the above mentioned BUG, it still persists.
I am using EE 1.6.4 Build:20080626.
If there is no resolution to this issue, I will continue to use Advanced Captcha (v.1.0.2).
Hi,
In fact this is not a bug, it is intended behaviour. EE is coded so that captcha words validate for two hours. You’ll have to revert to Derek Jones and the rest of EE team for the rationale behind this.
