Re: random text in bug submission.
Giorgos Keramidas <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.bugbusters |
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On 2005-04-08 13:27, Alan Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >>On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:56:11PM -0700, Alan Larson wrote: >>> I entered the correct code, and it said it didn't match and >>> refused to take my bug submission. >>> >>> What an annoyance. >>> >>> It showed the same code as a previous report, but did not accept >>> the entry. >> >> I really don't understand this behaviour. The image is called as a >> volatile script (/cgi/sendpr-code.cgi?dummy) and sends no-cache >> headers in the HTTP response. There's no way that your browser >> should have shown you the same code again. What is it? >>> There really should be some "are you really a human" at that point -- >> >> What? > > What I meant was that the failure to match error page should give > another (presumably different) image to match so one could continue > the submit process without loss of the information that had just been > manually entered. > > Sort of a "second try". This is a denial of service waiting to happen. Unless, of course, there is a severely limited number of allowed retries; in which case we're back to solving the problem with having just one retry, and the caching misbehavior you're seeing. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugbusters To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"