GnuCash wiki error on reCAPTCHA

[Geert Janssens]

Op woensdag 20 december 2017 23:31:45 CET schreef Tommy Trussell:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to update the Ubuntu page at wiki.gnucash.org that I have
> > updated in the past. It's been months since I've been logged in, so I just
> > logged in anew.
> > 
> > I made the change to the page, which includes a new URL, so I get the
> > reCAPTCHA.
> > 
> > When I enter the CAPTCHA text I get a blank page containing the error
> > 
> > "Could not open socket"
> > 
> > I have tried Firefox and Chromium, both with the same result.
> > 
> > Various web searches imply the error is due to a network issue between the
> > wiki server and the captcha server, but the problem has persisted for more
> > than a half hour.
> > 
> > Is the problem affecting other folks, too, or am I missing something?
> 
> I'm still trying to update, and 24 hours later am still getting the "Could
> not open socket" message.
> 
> I deleted the two obsolete releases of Ubuntu (didn't trigger CAPTCHA) BUT
> I am still trying to add the information for Ubuntu 17.10.
> 
> If someone with edit rights to the wiki could go to the page
> 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu
> 
> and paste the markup below at the correct spot (above 17.04) and let me
> know whether you get the same error.
> 
> 
> === Ubuntu 17.10 ("Artful Aardvark") ===
> 
> GnuCash 2.6.17 is included in Ubuntu 17.10, released October 2017
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/gnome/gnucash
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I have added the section for you without problems. But I'm probably not a good 
reference as I have more rights in the wiki than most users...

Derek, can you help debug this ?

Tommy, perhaps this would be easier to test in an interactive session with 
Derek on irc. His nick there is 'warlord'.

Geert