Comments on: MVC CAPTCHA for Preview Release 3

By: Chris Rock

Chris Rock — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:09:36 +0000

I’m trying to use IIS 5.1 (XP) and 6.0 (so I’m using the .mvc extension for my controllers) but I can’t get the captch image to display. The exception generated is:
System.Web.HttpException: The incoming request does not match any route.
at System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContextBase httpContext)
at System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext httpContext)
at System.Web.Routing.UrlRoutingHandler.System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

This is my route table setup:
// For IIS 5.1 (XP)
routes.MapRoute(
“Default2″, // Route name
“{controller}.mvc/{action}/{id}”, // URL with parameters
new { controller = “Home”, action = “Home”, id = “” }, // Parameter defaults
new { action = “[^\\.]*” }
);

routes.MapRoute(
“Default”, // Route name
“{controller}/{action}/{id}”, // URL with parameters
new { controller = “Home”, action = “Home”, id = “” }, // Parameter defaults
new { action = “[^\\.]*” }
);

The request generated is this (e.g.):
http://localhost/Member.mvc/captcha.ashx?guid=adf8d220cedd441daf55a5c0c688dfc4

This works great when I run it through the VS.Net 2008 web server, but not IIS 5.1/6. What am I missing?

Thanks,
Chris

By: JoostS

JoostS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:33:21 +0000

Nick,

Thanks for your reply in your mail, it’s working now. I had some problems with implementing it in vb.net.

By: JoostS

JoostS — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:08:16 +0000

Hi,

I’m trying this captcha module into my ASP.NET MVC (beta) application, but I can’t get it to work. I think it has to do with the beta release of MVC. I get the error CaptchaImage is not a member of System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper.

Do I need to modify anything?

Thanks in advance

By: Noah

Noah — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:01:18 +0000

Thanks for the great work, this is very helpful. I recently used this and made some modifications you might find useful including:

1) Modifying CaptchaTextBox to allow for custom html attributes (such as defining the CSS class)
2) Modifying CaptchaValidationAttribute to automatically invalidate my model (instead of set a captchaValid value)

Details are at http://noahblu.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/aspnet-mvc-captcha/

Noah

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By: Dan Swatik

Dan Swatik — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:29:07 +0000

hmm either I forgot or it got cut off

By: Dan Swatik

Dan Swatik — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:27:57 +0000

Actually got it working
You have to declare the captchaValid as a nullable parameter like so

[CaptchaValidation("captcha")]
public void Register(bool? captchaValid, string otherParameters)
{
// do stuff
}

also in the web config make sure to declare it like this
Not the dot Mvc

whats listed in the blog post must be dated.. and was changed at some point.

By: Dan Swatik

Dan Swatik — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:55:48 +0000

Thanks Nick
I actually did get it to work …well at least to display

now I get this
A value is required for parameter ‘captchaValid’ in action ‘Register’. The parameter either has no value or its value could not be converted. To make a parameter optional its type should either be a reference type or a Nullable type.

I gather it has something to do with the OnActionExecuting filter thingy… where in tarnation do I place that code in my project?

By: Nick Berardi

Nick Berardi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:32:25 +0000

That is because you action is probably picking it up. put a constraint on your action and controller. to check for periods. “[^\\.]*” works really well.

By: Dan Swatik

Dan Swatik — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:56:31 +0000

Nick do you have a working web site with this?

I can not seem to make it work… I’m not sure if this is because I am using the MVC Membership Starter Kit or what…

But it doesn’t seem to want to spit out the image instead I get a error from the MVC assembly stating that it can’t find the controller for captcha.ashx

Please help..thanks