PR - Incorrect confirmation code

[Martin Tournoij]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:17:01PM -0700, Unga wrote:
> --- On Fri, 7/11/08, Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker at rwxrwxrwx.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker at rwxrwxrwx.net>
> > Subject: Re: PR - Incorrect confirmation code
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Cc: unga888 at yahoo.com
> > Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:48 AM
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:35:38PM -0700, Unga wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I tried to submit a problem report over the web
> > (http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html) but on submit gives
> > following error:
> > > 
> > > "Incorrect confirmation code
> > > 
> > > You need to enter the correct code from the image
> > displayed. Please return to the form and enter the code
> > exactly as shown. Thank you."
> > > 
> > > Its really "Thank you" from my part also,
> > this Problem Report wasted lot of my time :(
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > Unga
> > 
> > That sucks :-(
> > 
> > In some browsers (Opera for example) you can press back and
> > whatever you typed
> > in forms will still be there ... Not sure how this works
> > with other browsers
> > ... Guess it's to late for that now...
> > 
> > Other then this, I would recommend to _ALWAYS_, on any
> > site/forum, copy
> > content to a file and/or the clipboard before submitting it
> > in a webform.
> > 
> > You may also want to try using send-pr(1) included in
> > FreeBSD base, IMO it
> > works a lot better than the webform anyway.
> > 
> 
> The issue is app running for the submit PR form either buggy or it has a
> very small time-out. It does not recognize the image code typed. 

There is a PR for this:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=www/99305

August 2006 ... Doesn't seem to be very high priority.

You may want to attempt to get the webmaster's attention by sending your
previous email to www at .
I would fix it myself but I'm not really familiar with perl (And even less
familiar with using perl for webpages) and don't have the time to learn/get
familiar...

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Martin Tournoij
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