[pydotorg-www] Editing LocalUserGroups

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 09.11.2016 22:30, Florian Ludwig wrote:
> 2016-11-09 22:22 GMT+01:00 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
> 
>> 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?
>>
> 
> I experimented a little bit more and observed the http headers while trying
> to edit the wiki, here an example:
> 
>    1. textcha-question:
>    l = [1,2,3]; del l[1]; l[0] == 1478726674f2fb6a09d140a9c28cee575a2a528191
>    2. textcha-answer:
>    2
> 
> If you need anything else for debugging, please let me know.

Thanks. The problem appears to have been related to the hash
value you see on the right.

Please try again now. I applied this patch to the installation:

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/diff/561b7a9c2bd9/MoinMoin/security/textcha.py

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