+1, it's use causes problems that aren't obvious to anyone except the person trying to fill in the captcha form. I think that problem outweighs the more obvious problem caused by the event no longer being present after an update.
Regards Scott On 13/05/2012, at 7:28 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > Is it ok if we remove this class completely? this was only used by the two > ofbiz screens that were using a captcha mechanism but they were broken and > the class was actually completely unsafe for concurrent usage; the new > implementation of captcha (already backported to 11.04 and 12.04) doesn't use > it at all. > > Jacopo > > On May 11, 2012, at 10:23 AM, lekt...@apache.org wrote: > >> Author: lektran >> Date: Fri May 11 08:23:10 2012 >> New Revision: 1337058 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1337058&view=rev >> Log: >> Deprecated org.ofbiz.common.Captcha >> >> Modified: >> ofbiz/trunk/framework/common/src/org/ofbiz/common/Captcha.java >> >> Modified: ofbiz/trunk/framework/common/src/org/ofbiz/common/Captcha.java >> URL: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/framework/common/src/org/ofbiz/common/Captcha.java?rev=1337058&r1=1337057&r2=1337058&view=diff >> ============================================================================== >> --- ofbiz/trunk/framework/common/src/org/ofbiz/common/Captcha.java (original) >> +++ ofbiz/trunk/framework/common/src/org/ofbiz/common/Captcha.java Fri May >> 11 08:23:10 2012 >> @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRes >> >> import org.ofbiz.base.util.UtilDateTime; >> >> +/** >> + * @deprecated since 2012-05, use >> org.ofbiz.common.CommonEvents.createCaptcha(request, response) instead >> + */ >> +@Deprecated >> public class Captcha { >> >> public static final String CAPTCHA_FILE_PATH = >> System.getProperty("ofbiz.home") + File.separator + "runtime" + >> File.separator + "tempfiles" + File.separator + "captcha" + File.separator; >> >> >