Last modified: 2008-02-13 06:47:05 UTC
An anonymous IP 69.134.218.108 reported that they were unable to see the CAPTCHA image. Viewing the link provided I am able to see the image in several browsers. They did not report their browser or platform. (I do not know if you can determine that from logs...or if logs are even turned on for this one subcomponent.) --~~~~
They'll need to provide information. Note that the captcha images won't display correctly if cookies are disabled.
Thanks - firewall was catching the 3rd party cookie and that fixed it.
There shouldn't be any third-party cookies, just same-party cookies. Can you show me what the cookie looks like and what setting caught it?
I haven't reproduced this user's scenario. But I did add an extra warning at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Captcha-createaccount which has made the complaints stop for now.
Just commented on a related bug, it doesn't work in some constellations even if cookies are enabled and the browser supports PNG, a wild guess is "file name issue", the URL is ..."&wpCaptchaId=123456789" without file extension PNG or whatever it is. Because I cant load a single exemplar I also can't check if something's unusual in its HTTP header.
No information provided. Closing as WORKSFORME
Created attachment 4637 [details] screen dump - eu.wikipedia - captcha image not displayed - 01.jpg screen dump from http://eu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aparteko:Userlogin&type=signup&returnto=Azala using c) Konqueror 3.5.5 (Using KDE 3.5.5) on KDE version 3.5.5; System: Linux; Release: 2.6.22-gentoo-r2; Machine: i686 it works on a) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070427 Firefox/2.0.0.3 on Linux KDE 3.5.5 b) Opera see configuration at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:I18n/Opera all on KDE version 3.5.5; System: Linux; Release: 2.6.22-gentoo-r2; Machine: i686 the same happens at http://lbe.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=special:Userlogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page the captcha image is visible for about three seconds and then disapears best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]
REOPENing this bug comment #7 is quite st*pid. Should a hint abpout using another browser should be added when captcha is used?
I do seem able to reproduce this with Konqueror 3.5.8 on Ubuntu Gutsy. The image nearly always disappears (replaced by a tiny generic file icon) after something causes it to redraw, such as dragging a section over it or scrolling down, then back up. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem on my local MediaWiki install, however, so there may be some sort of difference in the caching headers or some other behavior triggering it.
Seem to have fixed this in r30900. Made two changes: * An explicit cache-control header allowing private caching. (No effect, but seems wise to have.) * Commented out the 403 Access Denied on subsequent loads of an already-viewed captcha image. This allows Konqueror to reload the image (god knows why) without losing it, so it doesn't disappear. Since the image references are tied to the session, this _probably_ doesn't weaken the captcha much. But it'd be nice to know why Konqi is doing this crazy thing and how to stop it. :D
