Captcha - bug on shared host

Hostmysite

Or the server is incorrectly configured, and is still loading required web modules when trying to access those beans during that startup process.

Who are you hosting with?

As it's a shared hosting environment, it could be a case of incorrect sandbox settings from the hosting provider. By default, most shared hosts will disable access to java utilities, createObject functions, and most if not all file/fdirectory access tags. I have known of shared hosts to also have the cfimage tag disabled, or not have the correct temp location created (to hold the temporary image created by CF when writing to browser)

Perhaps it's worth them checking the sandbox permission to make sure they have everything correctly set?

idesdema wrote:
> Morning. I am trying to run a simple captcha script on a shared host and most
> of the time it works well, however, sometimes it decides to crash.
>
> Here is the error I'm getting:
>
> An exception occured while performing the captcha cfimage action.
> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Timer already cancelled.
>
> The error occurred in C:\Websites\168219qa6\scribble.cfm: line 1
>
> 1 : <CFIMAGE action="captcha" fontsize="20" text="Hello" difficulty="high"
> fonts="verdana" width="200" height="50" />
>
>
> I have logged many a ticket with the hosting company and they keep saying
> "sorry, nothing we can do" which seems like a really bad answer to me. Is
> there anyone that can perhaps guide me/them in the right direction so they can
> tell customers the correct answer?

I remember that I got this error some time ago. A CF restart solved it.

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Mack

Provided by the hosting company. It's a standard cfimage="captcha" tag.

They put the page up for me to test.

Where did you get the script? Is it provided by the hosting company, or did you download it from somewhere else?