Bug 60668

Summary: bug in web-based FreeBSD problem report submission form
Product: Documentation Reporter: Kevin Ross <austusross>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Kevin Ross 2003-12-28 21:50:17 UTC 
FreeBSD PR submission form intermittently rejects properly manually typed in anti-bot code.

Fix: 

Implement a more reliable bug report mechanism.
How-To-Repeat: It only happened once.  Isn't that enough?  After spending 30 minutes typing in a bug report about how FreeBSD 5.1/5.2RC2 CD's don't boot enough to start /stand/sysinstall, I won't do it again. (Toshiba Satellite Laptop model# 2435-S255)
Comment 1 austusross 2003-12-29 00:01:37 UTC 
It appears that the problem is that your anti-bot code is changed very 
frequently.  Unfortunately, the value displayed on the form isn't 
updated when the code changes.  Hitting refresh on the browser updates 
the code on the form without destroying the inputted fields (for Mozilla 
Firebird anyway) thankfully.  It's still a bug that the value displayed 
on the web page and the actual value for the code are often out of sync.
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-12-29 02:12:02 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-www

Give this one a less generic-sounding synopsis and assign it to the 
www folks.
Comment 3 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-01-03 21:24:57 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The code is actually generated on the fly for each request of the page. 
The problem that hit you here is that each code times out after 15 
minutes which, in your case (and in hindsight), is not long enough. 
I have now bumped this to 45 minutes.