Re: nospam plugin

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 16:41 +0100, Steven Armstrong wrote:
> On 03/06/05 15:25, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 15:05 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >> I'm trying to use the nospam plugin. It's the one that shows an image of
> >> a number for human verification. It seems to be the only anti-spam
> >> method for pyblosxom so far.
> >> http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/input/nospam
> >> Ignore my comment there - I do have PIL installed on the server.
> >> 
> >> However, the nospam.png does not seem to be generated. For instance:
> >> http://www.murrayc.com/blog/tech/2005-03-02-17-33.html
> >> 
> >> Does anyone have any ideas about how to debug this? I'm not sure how to
> >> run pyblosxom on the command line so that I can see some output there.
> > 
> > After updating to pyblosxom 1.1 (from 1.0) and updating comments.py to
> > the latest version, I see that the nospam does seem to be half working
> > now - it now (silently) ignores comments without the correct secret
> > number. But it still does not show the secret number.
> > 
> 
> Hi Murray
> 
> Get the compatibility.py plugin [1] and the session.py plugin [2] if you
> haven't allready got them.

Yeah, I had them.

> Make sure they are loaded before the nospam.py plugin.
> e.g.:
> py['load_plugins'] = [
>     'compatibility', ... ,'session' ,'nospam', ... ]

OK, tried that.

> Then try accessing the image directly [3].
> 
> If it doesn't work like this, try uncommenting the line
> import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
> at the top of pyblosxom.cgi to get some debuging info.

Tried that too. It doesn't seem to make any noticeable difference.

Thanks.

> 
> hope this helps
> cheers
> Steven
> 
> [1] http://www.c-area.ch/code/pyblosxom/plugins/compatibility.py
> [2] http://www.c-area.ch/code/pyblosxom/plugins/session.py
> [3] http://www.murrayc.com/blog/nospam.png

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Murray Cumming
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