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Error Plugin

Posted July 1, 2005 13:45 | Category: Colophon | #

The "Captcha Plugin" entry requires the error plugin in order to work, but I forgot to publish it when I published Captcha! So here it is. It is used by the Captcha plugin (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart") to report when the user enters the wrong string, etc.

All this plugin does is adapt CGI::Carp to work in a Captcha environment. You create a flavour file called "error.html" and that file will be displayed with any error message whenever a "die" occurs in any Blosxom plugin. Since the "captcha" plugin uses die to report errors, you will get an "Internal Server Error" unless you have the error plugin installed.

In order for it to work it must be loaded before the plugin that dies, so I suggest naming it "00error" in your plugins directory.

You can download this plugin and use it on your Blosxom site too. It is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL).

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Last updated: 09/19/2007 William R. Ward, bill@wards.net