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[RAMBO] The REBOL bug and enhancement database

Maxim
26-Feb-2007
[2784x2]
but btw... in my bug (which might or not be the same) it does not 
only corrupt the http protocol... the whole exists? cmd is down, 
since I am testing files in my case!
have you tried the same thing in 2.7?
Graham
26-Feb-2007
[2786]
Oldes, you're a year late with that bug report :)
Oldes
26-Feb-2007
[2787]
Ok... now I don't know, what is worst - if I'm late or the fix is 
late?
Graham
26-Feb-2007
[2788]
Isn't it fixed??
Maxim
26-Feb-2007
[2789]
I think he meant... its not in 1.3.2 release
Graham
26-Feb-2007
[2790]
well, it's likely to be a mezzanine .. ?
Maxim
26-Feb-2007
[2791]
exists? is, we'd have to look closer to see if this can be applied... 
the port stuff itself is not always trivial to patch...
Gabriele
26-Feb-2007
[2792]
the fix for that is what "caused" the read/binary bug in 2.7. (rather 
than "caused", it exposed a native bug when calling handler functions.)
Anton
4-Mar-2007
[2793x5]
Regarding #3867 "feel/detect event/face should be target face, not 
face" 
http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/rambo.r?id=3867
I realised when mimicking the behaviour of DO EVENT, that the reason 
the target face is not given is because its impossible to know at 
the time DETECT is called. Events travel down through the face hierarchy 
through the DETECT functions, the evaluation of which could have 
an effect on the result. The DETECT function can block events or 
allow them through, depending on the result they return, which is 
programmable and therefore dynamic. So a DETECT function higher up 
in the face hierarchy which is evaluated before a DETECT lower in 
the face hierarchy cannot know which is the target-face, because 
the result of the lower DETECT may change the target-face.
Therefore, I now see this as either a major design issue or a documentation 
error requiring some clarification. I don't think it is likely to 
be implemented (not in R2, anyway) because that would probably require 
an overhaul of the event system, and would likely break a lot of 
stuff.
The question is: do we want determinism or dynamism in this case 
? :-/
I think we don't want to lose dynamism.
Ashley
4-Mar-2007
[2798]
In most cases it is sufficient to know which face is under the mouse 
cursor at the time of the detect event. Coded as a mezz this is pretty 
slow.
Henrik
6-Mar-2007
[2799]
seems the spam bots have figured out how to submit "bugreports"...
Anton
6-Mar-2007
[2800]
Yeah they figured that out long ago... RT have been filtering them 
manually I think.
Maxim
6-Mar-2007
[2801]
why dont RT add a captcha?  ... it easy with rebol and the draw command.
Sunanda
6-Mar-2007
[2802]
A guess: the web site is probably running a /core version -- /view 
versions used to not work well in CGI environments (though that may 
have changed).
/core has no draw ability.
Graham
6-Mar-2007
[2803x2]
A math based captcha doesn't require draw
Or, the images could be pre-generated
Maxim
6-Mar-2007
[2805]
doesn't core support the draw native?  which can draw directly on 
an image datatype.
Oldes
6-Mar-2007
[2806x2]
Or the form inserted using javascript
(at least the submit button)
Gabriele
7-Mar-2007
[2808]
i've just been in bed with a flu for the last few days, so noone 
has been deleting spam :)
Graham
7-Mar-2007
[2809x2]
Wouldn't it be a little easier to add a captcha to the script ?
Or, even simpler, just add my smtp challenge script to validate the 
email address?
Oldes
7-Mar-2007
[2811x2]
I think, that email validation is so often required that every bot 
must know how to fill field named EMAIL
I really don't know, why everybody must be forced to rewrite some 
letters or do basic math only because of a few idiots. Just block 
their IPs or give the captcha only to some of these IP ranges (if 
you think, that there still can be someone innocent). That's what 
I would do.
Henrik
7-Mar-2007
[2813]
how can you possibly be sure that the IP does not contain a zombie 
spam bot that posts to the site as well as real posters?
Oldes
7-Mar-2007
[2814]
that's why I say - give the captchas only to users from these IPs
Graham
7-Mar-2007
[2815x4]
why should gabriele be forced out of his sick bed to delete spam?
better to have a captcha test
spammers use proxies so you can't always block their ip address
or, use zombie pcs
Oldes
7-Mar-2007
[2819]
so insert the submit tag using javascript
Graham
7-Mar-2007
[2820]
and use chickenscript to automate javascript
Oldes
7-Mar-2007
[2821x2]
that's easy and works
what is chickenscript?
Graham
7-Mar-2007
[2823]
browser plugin for firefox that drives firefox
Oldes
7-Mar-2007
[2824]
I don't think there is many robots evaluating javascript
Graham
7-Mar-2007
[2825x2]
use it to automatically login to sites, evaluate javascript etc
I use it all the time ...
Oldes
7-Mar-2007
[2827x2]
ok... I give up
anyway, I would like to see from which IPs the spam is comming
Gabriele
7-Mar-2007
[2829]
in my experience... blocking ips can block 90% of spam, but not all. 
of the remaining 10%, a good amount is actually posted by humans, 
so there are no easy way to block it.
Maxim
7-Mar-2007
[2830x2]
Gabriele, could a captcha be added easily and timely to RAMBO... 
as well as a "preview" step... hitting the "enter" is easy to do 
involuntarily.
?
Gabriele
7-Mar-2007
[2832]
i don't have time for it now :)
Anton
7-Mar-2007
[2833]
chickenfoot