anyone else having trouble editing the wiki today?

Today the reprap site wiki does not want to accept edits that include a website reference and requires authentication by ReCaptcha for me. After an edit adding a website reference, it fails to accept the change and says “Could not open socket”. I have never seen this before. It accepts text edits though. Any thoughts?

also having trouble uploading pics, it gives me this error:
"Error creating thumbnail: /usr/bin/convert: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
clarification: I uploaded .png, .gif and .jpg pictures, but it displayed this error (above) in stead of the image where it was linked.
I have uploaded a bunch of pics and added links many times from this computer within the last few weeks, what's up with that?

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2013 09:52PM by rrr7.

I found this forum where they discussed this same issue:
google.com/recaptcha
They suggest mostly 2 things- updating site code to circumvent DNS or host admin request to open port. Others say the problem came and went without action by them.

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#49:
"From what I can tell, the problem comes from the system not being able to resolve a host name."
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#66:
replace----> define("RECAPTCHA_VERIFY_SERVER", "www.google.com"); to this
define("RECAPTCHA_VERIFY_SERVER", "74.125.236.178");
worked
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#69:
"I was facing the same issue today. but i had solved my problem after i contact to my network administrator.

It is possible that you do not have direct access to port 80 as a organisation in which you are working has set up a proxy using a firewall system. so please contact your administrator before saying anything to google as we all depends on it..

port 80 is used in function "_recaptcha_http_post" in recapchalib.php and the error of socket occurs on line 80 "@fsockopen" function.

I am using recaptcha on my localhost and it works fine for me. hope contacting to your network administrator or removing any kind of proxy from your server work for you all."
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Other issue: the uploaded pics issue would be a separate issue unrelated to recaptcha. I have no clue about this error.
By the way, I can implement none of these suggested fixes. -rrr7

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2013 10:59PM by rrr7.

A few people have said recently that they can't PM me through the forums because they get "Could not open socket” as well.

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[www.hydraraptor.blogspot.com]

... me too ... one new user couldn't register to forum or wiki - I've created a forum login for him, but didn't work with wiki

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Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]

Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]

Is "Could not open socket” a local error on the users PC or a server error?

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[www.hydraraptor.blogspot.com]

... I'll guess it's something changed on the server, as the server-admins recently changed the database structure after the forum crash

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Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]

Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]

Yes, in the forum I linked to above most agreed it was some kind of a server issue.

The wiki still rejects edits that require confirmations and adding pictures to the database.

Sorry for the inconvenience, folks. The wiki is currently experiencing some "database full" errors (which aren't caused by disk full errors). It's worked on, but converting a database from one format to another takes time. I hope it gets resolved soon.

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