[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #11176: Bug tracker is broken when submitting bugs with links

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #11176: Bug tracker is broken when submitting bugs with links
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-09 08:59:24

#11176: Bug tracker is broken when submitting bugs with links
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 Reporter:  hlandau@…  |       Type:  Bugs
   Status:  new        |  Milestone:
Component:  None       |    Version:
 Severity:  Problem    |   Keywords:
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 After submitting a bug with a link, the submission was rejected as
 possible spam and I was asked to complete the following CAPTCHA; except
 that no CAPTCHA was so following.

 I had to view source to get the URL of a reCAPTCHA iframe, load it in
 another tab, get the 'you have javascript disabled' response string,
 disable CSS on the bug tracker so I could even see the response textarea
 (which was for some reason hidden), and paste it in. The lack of a submit
 button further complicated matters, requiring me to use the DOM inspector
 to find the applicable <form> tag and assign it an ID, so that I could
 type javascript:document.getElementById('captchaform').submit(); into the
 address bar, thereby causing the form to be submitted. Even then, the
 submission failed and I had to do the whole rigamarole a second time,
 which succeeded; this, in combination with extremely long waiting times
 before submission attempts came back with a response, leads me to suspect
 the bug tracker is also experiencing timeouts when making outgoing
 requests to other services, as for instance reCAPTCHA, last I recall,
 relies on a backend request to do response verification.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11176>
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