575139 - When posting as a guest, forum incorrectly tells you the cause of a posting failure

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(support.mozilla.org :: Forum, task)

Description

[DS]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: 

If you attempt to post as a guest and are not accepting cookies from support.mozilla.org the posting will fail with the message.
"You have mistyped the anti-bot verification code; please try again."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Delete the sumo cookies and permissions
2.When asked, block cookies from support.mozilla.org
3.Post a reply as a guest.
4. Carefully type in the code
Actual Results:  
A message will appear stating "You have mistyped the anti-bot verification code; please try again."

Expected Results:  
A message should appear stating that the site require cookies be accepted

FYI, I discovered that cookies needed to be turn on when I attempted to register. After typing in the anti-bot code I was correctly to told that the site needed to use cookies to continue.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Confirmed.

Comment 2

[Tanay Gavankar [:tgavankar]]

We don't allow guest posting in Kitsune.