Comments on: I must be getting too old...

Question: I must be getting too old...

dpcoffin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:29:05 -0800

How does the verification work on this page?

I can't work it out; help!

By: tachikaze

tachikaze — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:35:21 -0800

open the small image in a new window I guess?

By: disaster77

disaster77 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:39:54 -0800

I use that plug-in on my blog. You enter the text in the image to the right in into the box.

By: cdmwebs

cdmwebs — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:41:08 -0800

Have you looked at the site of the people who wrote the plugin (dd-formmailer)?

(Is that what you're asking about? I'm kind of confused...)

By: ldenneau

ldenneau — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:45:35 -0800

It appears to be tied to the IP address. The server probably just remembers the last verification code sent to a particular IP address (subject to timeout, etc.) Open two copies of the page. Enter the code from the second one you opened into the first one...

By: heeeraldo

heeeraldo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:49:25 -0800

do you have flash or adblocking software on? that could be impeding the verification code.

By: strangecargo

strangecargo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:19:25 -0800

That image looks absolutely *tiny* (unreadably so) under Safari. You can get at the image by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking) on the image and choosing "open image in new window" from the menu.

By: dpcoffin

dpcoffin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:21:47 -0800

Thanks for the suggestions, still no luck. I get "No verification code generated" with every string of letters/numbers I copy from the image, which I can only see doing as strangecargo suggests (I'd gotten that far before posting here), regardless of how many times I reopen the page or reopen the image. Ad blocking is off in Safari.

By: ook

ook — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:30:27 -0800

Doesn't work for me in Safari either. I'm too lazy to figure out why, and presumably so were the developers of the site.

Works in Firefox though, so if you really need to use that form, try a different browser.