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

[Brion Vibber]

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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.

That does seem a little weird, like the permissions array somehow broke
horribly.

Check if you've recently changed configs on that, or installed another
extension, or upgraded something...?

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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