0.7.10 can't update the wiki

[Jevanyn]

I've had geohash Droid for a while. I downloaded 0.7.9, and I
currently have 0.7.10.

It used to be able to edit the wiki for a geohash, but this has not
worked since recaptcha was installed on the wiki. (At least, I _think_
that's the issue.) It can also no longer upload pictures. The error
message states "Your password is incorrect" (Darn!), but it's the same
password I enter to log in using Chrome.

[CaptainSpam]

Hm... I know they recently upgraded to a more recent version of
MediaWiki, and that required me to update the login procedure (so
downgrading to 0.7.9 won't work; that'll just give you unknown
errors), but I think I've got that main part right.

If they have ReCaptcha installed, however, that may pose some
problems. I did most of my testing on a test wiki I have on my own
server (so I don't dump a bunch of garbage test data in the real
wiki), but I didn't have the ReCaptcha module installed. If it's
prompting for that, it might be a cause for concern.

However, going over the MediaWiki API, if that were happening, it'd
return an error message specifically saying it wants a captcha, which,
in Geohash Droid, would come up as an unknown error, as I don't
account for that yet. You're saying it's telling you your password is
incorrect? Unless the wiki is returning bogus error codes, the only
way that'll happen is if it actually thinks your password is incorrect
(I think there's a different code for an invalid user). Are you
absolutely sure the password's right?

If I have the time (and if one of this weekend's hashpoints are in
decent range of me), I'll test this myself on the official wiki and
see what happens for me. I just don't want to post useless stuff for
test and have to have the admins clean it up. :-)

Thanks!

[CaptainSpam]

Well, now, this IS a bit disturbing.

I started out on an expedition today. I made a post from a nearby gas
station, and it went through perfectly. It's up on the wiki now, in
fact: http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/2011-05-01_38_-84

But, then I went out in the field. When I found some place to stop
(in the middle of nowhere, Central Kentucky), I tried to make a post
from there, and THAT gave me an invalid password error. Very odd.
When I got back home, I tried making another post, and THAT went
through. So for the record, the first one (success) came from 3G near
Lexington, KY, the second one (failure) from some vacant middle-of-
nowhere off of I-64, the third one (success) from a Wi-Fi connection.

And it looks like it failed during the login phase. I didn't even
think ReCaptcha kicked in during login. I'll have to look more into
this. If the captcha module IS in effect and it IS causing these
problems, then the wiki might have something configured wrong, as that
should give me a specific error that says I need to do captcha stuff.

So, thanks for the report, at any rate!

On Apr 28, 12:17 pm, Jevanyn <jeva...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Thomas]

I have been wikiing yesterday w/o issues. It must be something more specific.

[CaptainSpam]

Interesting, then. Something about this is starting to seem like it
can't contact the wiki at all in the cases where it failed (bad data
connection, most likely), and I've got a bug somewhere that makes that
come back as a bad password error.

That, at least, I can test from home AND on my test wiki, once this
cold I've got clears up. :-)