Blue Swiss Cheese ( 브루 쉬쓰 치즈)

Tags:	blog, dopplr, spam protection, wordpress
Subject:	More dopplr woes
Time:	06:36 pm

This time I tried to post a comment on the dopplr blog, and I got an error telling me to make sure Javascript and Cookies were enabled on my browser. They both are. Then I did a view source on the blog post page to see what their javascript was doing.

It looks like a standard wordpress set up with WPSpamFree 1.6 for spam handling. The WPSpamFree link is /wp-content/plugins/wp-spamfree/js/wpSpamFreeJS.php. This is a PHP file that's supposed to execute on the server and print out Javascript.

The problem is that this isn't executing on the server. Instead of printing out javascript, the server returns the PHP file itself. The result is that the response of the <script> tag is a file with a php content type, and contains php rather than javascript. The browser cannot execute it, and skips it. The result, is that the wp-comments-post page does not get everything it was expecting from the comment submit form, and throws an error.

The fix would be to either move this script to a location where PHP is executed, or to turn on PHP for the directory where the script is.

I've already notified them of the problem.

IAC, the post I was trying to comment on is this one: Some good Heathrow news.

Update: It's been fixed

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April 6th, 2008

April 6th, 2008

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