Option (Select New Captcha Image)

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:31 am

I believe this is an option in vB where if your having trouble reading the current Captcha image, you can choose to view another to login by. I personally find it handy as I sometimes have trouble with Captcha Images which can result in another attempt(s) at logging in.

Just thought I'd mention it.

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What is vB?

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:53 am

vBulletin?

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:30 pm

Yes, vBulletin.

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:10 pm

For an example, here's a new SimpleMachines forum that I just registered with this feature [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
Just hit "Request another image"

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:27 am

Without a bit of recoding it's not possible with the way it is now. Though all you would have to do is check for the request and redraw the image using what is stored in SESSION.

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:25 am

technocrat, another thought that I had was, if javascript is enabled, using AJAX to not only reset the SESSION with a new code, but then also to redraw it. Not sure if its possible, but thought it might be more flexible as I have noticed that depending upon where the captcha is placed on the page, and how end users have gotten to the specific page (can you say history(-1)), even doing a page reload can be "tricky". Just a thought...

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:14 am

You could, it would just require AJAX coding.