WP-Cache and Challenge don’t co-exist

Thanks to Kroms who pointed this out, last night 7 + 5 did not equal 12 any more! Even 9 + 5 was not equal to 14 as well! I went back to old finger days math:

14 (Correct!)

But no the blog said, “You have failed to pass the challenge”. I am not %100 sure, but the last change I made was activate the wp-cache few days back. Theoretically, it could be caching the same Question text everytime, when the actual numbers are different on the server side. Thus, the poor user will enter the answer to the cached question, and will fail to pass! How unfair! This has resulted in the ultimate challenge and not even a single spam came last night.

I tried to clear the cache, deactivate the plugin but still am facing problems with the challenge. For the sake of it, I have removed the challenge for now, resulting in 38 spam comments only over the course of a night. If only they were real visitors I say :)

I just removed the whole cache folder in a desperate hope to resolve the issue. Nevertheless, it may be a good time to look for an alternative filtering as the current one was passed by spammers may times a day. I always wanted to have a Laplace Transform in the equation. Spammers are too stupid to know that one, or at least too lazy I guess.

Look forward to the new challenge. There might be top scores, best challenger and stuff like that. It could change the core idea of this whole blog :)

UPDATE: Blog is finally back up and running. As I was writing I removed the cache folder, it turns out to be more serious than I thought. I have low tolerance to the Del button so I went and removed everything that has to do with caching. Here, the problem got worse, and the only backup I have is at home and not too fresh as well. This is why you could have seen the blog down for quite some time. I wonder why problems happened when I deleted wp-cache related files only after I disabled it! Which is why I assumed it’s safe to remove them and make sure nothing else is cached anymore. Apparently I was wrong.

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4 Responses to “ WP-Cache and Challenge don’t co-exist ”

Comments:

Kroms says:
June 26th, 2007 at 11:22 pm

So what’s a “cache”?

MrMMM says:
June 27th, 2007 at 4:22 am

Either it was so long since the last time I solved a math ‘Problem’ , the answer to 0+0 is not 0 or the problem still exists .. coz I had to retype the comment on the iPhone camping post ..

Bashar says:
June 27th, 2007 at 9:13 am

Kroms: Every time you send request to blog page or any dynamic generated page, the server reads data from database format and send it back to browser. This is ofcourse an overhead in response time and requests to Database

In caching, the server remembers the content and send them back immediately without going back to database or generating fresh content, thus the question it self was cached and displayed the same every time, when the actual answer is different ofcourse on the server :)

MrMMM: Is it really? I tried it seems to be working fine.

If anyone still faces it please do let me know.

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