Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#19023 closed Bug (fixed)

Bug tracker spam filter is broken.

Reported by: tdhutt@… Owned by: Aymeric Augustin
Component: *.djangoproject.com Version:
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

I just created a new ticket, and the spam filter is broken in at least 3 ways:

  1. It marked my message as spam when it very obviously wasn't.
  2. It asked me to "respond to the following." which was presumably meant to be followed by a captcha, but there wasn't actually anything to respond to.
  3. I clicked "back" and resubmitted the form and it worked! Surely if it thinks I am a spammer and can't answer the (non-existant) captcha I shouldn't be allowed to do that?

Change History (5)

comment:1 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Thanks for the report. The core team is aware of the problem: Trac's spam filter isn't fantastic.

However, we don't have a better alternative, and we prefer to keep it possible to contribute without creating an account.

And we focus our energy on improving Django rather than improving Trac :)

I recommend to create an account; you'll hardly ever encounter the spam filter when you're logged in.

Last edited 12 years ago by Aymeric Augustin (previous) (diff)

comment:2 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: closedreopened

Erm, it appears I spoke too fast. The spam plugin is really broken. This may be a consequence of the upgrade to Trac 1.0.

comment:3 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Aymeric Augustin
Status: reopenednew

comment:4 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Type: UncategorizedBug
Version: 1.4

comment:5 by Aymeric Augustin, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

The problem is that code.djangoproject.com uses HTTPS, but reCaptcha is served over HTTP, and browsers refuse to load mixed content.

I've resolved this problem by switching to a different captcha.

Last edited 12 years ago by Aymeric Augustin (previous) (diff)
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