[pydotorg-www] Editing LocalUserGroups

[M.-A. Lemburg]

I checked the logs. They are full of entries like these:

[Thu Nov 10 08:06:36 2016] [error] 2016-11-10 08:06:36,257 INFO
MoinMoin.security.textcha:159 TextCha: failure (u='x.x.x.x', a='van',
re='[Never match for cheaters]', q='What is van Rossum's fir',
rsn='TypeError during signature check')

Here's the associated code:

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/561b7a9c2bd9/MoinMoin/security/textcha.py#l129

What's strange is the truncated question and the TypeError.

I've put Thomas Waldmann on CC. Perhaps he can add some more
insights.

Thomas: I have upgraded the moin installation to 1.9.9 and
we're getting lots of textcha errors since then. Questions
get truncated and TypeErrors appear to prevent any textcha
from succeeding, it seems.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,
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On 09.11.2016 22:56, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 09.11.2016 22:22, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Florian Ludwig <f.ludwig at greyrook.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Sadly I could not edit the page as it always complains I am not correctly
>>> answering the captcha: "TextCha: Wrong answer! Try again below..."
>>>
>>> Interestingly the captcha shortens with every try.  For example:
>>>
>>> # on first try, answer is 2 ;)
>>>  l = [1,2,3]; l.remove(1); l[0] ==
>>>
>>> # after pressing save, the captcha just looks like this:
>>>  l = [1,2,3]; l.remove(1);
>>>
>>> # and saving again it would look like:
>>>  l = [1,2,3]; l.re
>>>
>>
>> Fascinating. You're not the first to report textcha issues, but you're
>> the first to mention this. M-A, does this help track down what's going
>> on?
> 
> Has this been happening only since yesterday or before that as
> well ? I'm asking because I upgraded moin on the VM yesterday,
> so it may be related to the upgrade.
>