Failed To Verify Referrer

  • Hi,

    today a site visitor mailed to me, that she received the error message “Failed to Verify Referrer” after voting. I searched this forum and found an entry, two years old, already closed saying I must not use caching software. I do use a caching and I tried it myself many times it does work most of the time.

    Anyways I wonder wouldn’t it be better to show a simple “Thank you” message to the customer and insert a log entry, or mail the error message to the admin, rather than to unsettle the customer?

    kr, Martin

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  • Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    That is because you are logged in. Most caching plugin doesn’t cached when you are logged-in,

    Thread Starter mogli235

    (@mogli235)

    I figured this might be the case. Therefore I used an anonymous tab without being logged in.

    Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    I am also able to vote fine as well. So maybe on your user end, something is really caching for him/her. Hence the security token has expired and shows the error message.

    Thread Starter mogli235

    (@mogli235)

    I changed logging now to only cookie, without referrer. Can this interfere somehow?

    Nevertheless the message should be changed, as the visitor can not do anything. Thanks!

    Plugin Author Lester Chan

    (@gamerz)

    I agree that there is nothing much the user can do.

    But if it says thank you, there is no way the owner of the site knows something is wrong because it is technically an error.

    Thread Starter mogli235

    (@mogli235)

    Absutely! I suggest to say “thank you” and to send an e-mail to the admin. I received that error only by chance.

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