captcha-ready server script tester

just the other day my friend, a programmer, complained that he couldn’t got captcha work for his new application. he thought that it was the web server that had no gd library. so he asked my other friend, the server’s sysadmin, to install the library. and the sysadmin did so. a few moments later the programmer called again and said that it was still not working.

the sysadmin then asked me to check if other library might be needed to make captcha work on the new web server. so i did the check, all requirements seemed to be there already and captcha should be working. why didn’t it work? i asked uncle google for help and i found this website that provides free scripts to generate captcha. it also has a script to test whether a server is good enough for captcha. so i download the script and put it on the web server and execute it.
and whalaa…. the server’s not ready for captcha.

what could be wrong? then i tried my old trick…. restart apache. and finally it worked. my friend forgot to restart apache. we should always restart apache when there’s a configuration change. btw i think the script is very useful to test whether a web server is ready for captcha or not. we can use it to make sure that everything is ok before blaming the programmer that it’s his code that’s broken

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