Author Topic: Report to stop forum spam is not transferring my api key  (Read 961 times)

wesyah234

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Report to stop forum spam is not transferring my api key
« on: March 01, 2011, 09:41:33 PM »
When I click the link on a comment to report it to "stop forum spam" the link generated does not contain my api key, even though I have my api key saved in the config settings.  I just upgraded today to your latest version and it still doesn't work.  All the other fields are filled in about the spam, just not the api key. 
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wesyah234

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Re: Report to stop forum spam is not transferring my api key
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2011, 09:02:47 AM »
Yeah, if that part doesn't work, then it is hard to improve the overall system.  I'm getting lots of comment spam lately, and I can't easily do anything about it.

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Re: Report to stop forum spam is not transferring my api key
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2011, 04:50:32 PM »
If you mean the link in the comment section 'Report & Delete' that link will not hold your API key.

The way to check if you reported the offending visitor is by checking with My Spammers on Stop Forum Spam after you clicked ob the 'Report & Delete'  link and see if the info has been added.
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Re: Report to stop forum spam is not transferring my api key
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2011, 05:41:58 PM »
I'm confused.  The data is not getting submitted because the API key is not being passed to Stop Forum Spam.  So it is definitely not going to show up in "my spammers".

Can you fix the plugin so that the link is useful?  STop Forum Spam doesn't accept submissions without an API key, so as long as the API key is being saved as part of the configuration, why not put it into the link that you generate?

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Re: Report to stop forum spam is not transferring my api key
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2011, 09:14:55 PM »
How do you know the API key isn't being passed?
The link 'Report & Delete' is an AJAX call back into the plugin, it's not the call made to Stop Forum Spam.
It's while processing the AJAX call that the call is made to Stop Forum Spam and then the comment is deleted through WordPress calls. Unless you snif your network you never see the actual URL that's being used to call Stop Forum Spam.

I can send you a version I just created that will send an email if there's an error reporting the visitor.
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Re: Report to stop forum spam is not transferring my api key
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2011, 09:10:57 AM »
I'm so sorry. I have another stop spam plugin active, which was creating the link on the main comment viewing page.  This other plugin created a link as follows:

http://www.stopforumspam.com/add?username=GPS+Forex+Robot+Review&email=&ip_addr=81.191.149.129&evidence=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gps-forexrobot.com%2Fgps-forex-robot-review&api_key=

It was missing the api key because it was not configured correctly.

I disabled that plugin for now, and...

Now I have found your link, but I had to first mark the comment as spam, and then go to the view of the spam comments, and I found the link to "report and delete", which looks like this
wp-admin/admin.php?avhfdas_ajax_action=avh-fdas-reportcomment&id=82&_wpnonce=7ad787b4f2

So, now the problem is that I get a blank page when I click that link...