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Roller 1.0 RC2 is out (with JCaptcha integration)

The full Roller 1.0RC2 announcement can be found on the Roller project blog. In addition to lots of bug fixes, we also added a new JCaptcha based comment authenticator. I've got it running on this site if you'd like to try it out.

JCaptcha integration was really easy because JCaptcha developer Marc-Antoine Garrigue did all the work. He implemented the Roller CommentAuthenticator interface and documented the integration process. Now all you have to do to enable CAPTCHA support in Roller is to uncomment a line in Roller's web.xml file. Thanks Marc-Antoine.

Roller 1.0 is very, very close, possibly only a day or two away. I'm still fighting a mysterious bug that is preventing Firefox 1.0 browsers from logging into my test server. We use Apache mod_rewrite to rewrite the blogs.sun.com URLS, so we can have http://blogs.sun.com/<username> redirect to http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/<username>. For some reason, this prevents Firefox 1.0 from logging in (via standard Servlet Authentication). All other browsers work fine and if I turn off mod_rewrite Firefox 1.0 works too.

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This JCaptcha thing seems like an ok idea.. but I think it's not very great if you have to refresh the page several times until you get a word you can actually see what is.. :)

Posted by Bjorn on December 20, 2004 at 10:01 AM EST #

Your welcome!

Posted by marc-antoine garrigue on December 20, 2004 at 10:47 AM EST #

Your welcome! you should use some other image as backround ( black one are better!). They should be deployed in the WEB-INF/classes/gimpybackgrounds folder. Best Regards....

Posted by marc-antoine garrigue on December 20, 2004 at 10:51 AM EST #

Yes, I should experiment with some diffrent images. Some of them are pretty hard to read.

Posted by Blogging Roller on December 20, 2004 at 11:16 AM EST #

I have the same problem with JCaptcha. It's hard to read and not a typable code from keyboard. How to get rid of these symbols. Any idea is most welcome.

Posted by Raf Slam on May 25, 2007 at 09:34 AM EDT #

I have the same problem with JCaptcha. It's hard to read and not a typable code from keyboard. How to get rid of these symbols. Any idea is most welcome.

Posted by Raf Slam on May 25, 2007 at 09:35 AM EDT #

I noticed that the currnet jcapcha plugin for roller isn't compatible with roller 2.3. It looks like a number of the classes referenced by the plugin don't exist or that the package names have changed. Also the struts and roller config files used to handle the plugin setup have also changed (so the instructions are not pointing to acurate files). I see that there is at least one documented 'cowboy integration' of roller 2.3 with jcaptcha found here: http://www.toolsforteams.com/roller/blog/entry/roller_2_3_upgrade_notes that being said it involves manually changing jcaptcha source code, touching diffent config file (not all of which are documented). This really needs to be tighter integrated with roller because a math based validation algorithym is just what the bots want and probably what will eventually lead to the terminators destroying all of humanity! :)

Posted by andrew norman on September 10, 2009 at 03:24 PM EDT #

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