[Mediawiki-l] Captcha broken, don't know why

[Hiram Clawson]

Problem solved.  My ConfirmEdit.php and FancyCaptcha.php source were
out of date and out of sync with the current version of the MediaWiki software.

I hate updates.

--Hiram

Hiram Clawson wrote:
> Ever have one of those days where everything that was working,
> has now stopped working, and there hasn't been any change
> to the system ?  Evidently something has changed, but you don't
> know what it is.
> 
> I used to have a smoothly functioning FancyCaptcha with
> ConfirmEdit system running just fine.  Now I discover that
> users can no longer create accounts because the Captcha
> image is not being displayed.  The IMG tag is generated
> in the create account form, but the returned image size
> is zero, and the IMG area disappears.  When I input directly
> the URL for the Captcha image, e.g.:
> http://myhost.edu/index.php?title=Special:Captcha/image&wpCaptchaId=235016017
> the Wiki responds:
> Permission error
> You are not allowed to execute the action you have requested.
> 
> The IMG tag in the create account form appears as:
> img src="/index.php?title=Special:Captcha/image&wpCaptchaId=235016017" width="331" height="114"
> 
> But I can't figure out what permissions are being violated here ?
> I placed debug print statements in the FancyCaptcha.php business, and it is merrily
> going about its business, scanning the images directory, generating these
> CaptchaId's and height and width numbers from the images, and yet the page
> will not function.  There are no extra error messages in the Apache error log.
> 
> Any hints on what to check for this situation ?
> 
> --Hiram