Repeatedly encountering CAPTCHA

[doherty]

The CAPTCHA page claims "You'll have to complete this test only once." but I get one every time I try to ++ a module.

[benkasminbullock]

It may be a duplicate of

#560

and

#544

[monken]

Thanks for catching this. Will look into it.

[monken]

Hi doherty,

could you check https://api.metacpan.org/user for me and tell me, whether you see a looks_human: true there?

Cheers,
mo

[doherty]

Yes, I look like a human.

[doherty]

I also see "passed_captcha" : "2012-05-12T15:02:29"

[monken]

OK, couldn't reproduce it yet, but working on it :)

[monken]

It could be a client caching problem. Can you try to solve the captcha, then force reload the page you want to vote on (or purge your cache) and see if it works?

[benkasminbullock]

@monken

Can you try to solve the captcha, then force reload the page you want to vote on (or purge your cache) and see if it works?

It doesn't work for my case.

[monken]

@benkasminbullock can you also check https://api.metacpan.org/user for "looks_human"?

[benkasminbullock]

Yes, I get

{
   "looks_human" : true,

   "passed_captcha" : "2012-05-20T20:27:29"
}

[doherty]

Reloading the page where I want to ++ doesn't help.

[monken]

Do you guys see the "Verify Account" menu item on https://metacpan.org/account/profile?
If so, please remove all cookies from api.metacpan.org and metacpan.org and log in again.

[benkasminbullock]

@monken: no I don't.

[doherty]

@monken: I don't either.

However, I may have noticed a pattern. Once I'm asked to complete a captcha, I'll be asked to do so again if I try to ++ immediately. But when I go away frustrated and come back the next day, I'm not asked to complete a captcha. Now that I've had this idea, I'll pay attention to whether that's always true, but perhaps it indicates that there is some caching going on there?