Error Reporting Spam: Returning from AJAX

This error comes up if PHP can’t contact the Stop Forum Spam website or there is error reporting the spammer. I will test it. SFS is up and seems to be working.

I don’t have any spam right now, so I can’t test it on my sites. (I have all the test plugins running so I don’t get spam at all, but then again I am not sure anyone can comment on my site at the moment).

Is there anything in the error logs? You can check this on the diagnostics submenu item.

One thing, you have to wait for one request to finish before reporting the next one. Most of the time this isn’t an issue, but I got an error once because I was too quick with the keys and SFS was very slow.

If the ajax request times out you get this. If your SFS API key is wrong you get this error.

Oh, one more thing. If the IP address is IPV6 you get this error. I didn’t disable the reporting function on IPV6 numbers because I am always hopeful that SFS will fix it’s database. Right now they error out if you send them an IPV6 number.

Keith

I have no idea if its a v6 site. It is two different IPs.

I can’t find the error logs, I may be looking in the wrong place though.

The plugin works great, these just made it through.

It is probably IPv6. Some spammers use IPV6. IPV6 has : separating numbers like 123:123:123:123:123:132 and the old IP addresses use dashes like 12-123-123-123. Stop Forum Spam barfs when it gets the new IPV6 format. Very few spammers use the IPV6, but many of the tools in my plugin can’t use them for checking. I can’t use SFS to check for spam when the spammer is using IPV6 so spammers can slip through. Akismet almost always stops them, even if my plugin misses them.

Keith