I used Hashcash to break Apache, then broke feed

Okay, so I fixed the “Your feed appears to be encoded as “utf-8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII” and now I’m SUPPOSEDLY valid. But still not good enough for Sharpreader. I still need help.

Wow, I didn’t have a single problem with this plugin and I haven’t had a single comment spam get through since I implemented it, even though there have been many attempts. What wasn’t working?

Maybe you should ask or explain what happened on Elliott’s site?

BTW, you should not have edited/modified any of your WP files when you installed this plugin. All you needed to do was upload the plugin to you wp-content/plugins folder (directory) and then activate it. If the plugin failed, then there are manual instructions. Did you try the plugin without modifying any of your WP files first?

Perhaps the Apache was wrong all along and that’s why the plugin didn’t work. I had timeouts, the comment box wouldn’t load, and something in the “form” was wrong. I did, however, insert the code correctly. As far as I could see…

Sorry, willfulexpose, I added to my post while you were posting. Did you try the plugin without modifing any of your WP files?

Yes I did try it without modifying any files. After all that’s happened, I forget what was wrong. I’ll try again, without modifying any WP files.

Okay, implemented with no editing of WP files. At the top of my site lies this message:

Warning: Cannot add header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/webadmin/willfulexpose.infinityhost.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-hashcash.php:2) in /home/webadmin/willfulexpose.infinityhost.com/html/index.php on line 8

I also can’t load individual post pages.

After removing…

<?php header(“Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8”); ?>

…which I had used to validate my feed, the message is still gone. Individual pages still not loading though.

Hmm, more specifically, the first permalink doesn’t work (it loads the original page), others do. Unfortunately, trying to post a comment generates more bad messages:

Warning: Cannot add header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/webadmin/willfulexpose.infinityhost.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-hashcash.php:2) in /home/webadmin/willfulexpose.infinityhost.com/html/wp-comments-post.php on line 177

…and on lines 179, 181, 185, 187, 189, 191, 201. I never touched that php file!

Okay, I’m not an expert and I can’t see your code but do you have an extra whitespace either in front of the <?php or after the ?>

I checked index.php, wp-comments-post.php, wp-comments.php, wp-hashcash.php, or even md5.js. Didn’t see any white space.
Thanks for your help, so much!

Now the site isn’t loading at all. I think the Apache might be off again. Depressing!

The Apache dies when I try to comment. I may have just too old of a version. Unfortunately, I’m giving up on this plugin. I’ll still make an ode to you though.

I can’t even load your site now. I suspect that you removed something you shouldn’t have removed or left something you shouldn’t have left when you removed the code for the hash. Sometimes it difficult to find a small mistake. I would compare a fresh WP copy with what you have now. I don’t know PHP well enough to know what those errors mean. Sorry that I could not be of more help. ??

Just got tech support to fix it again. He said the Apache was “stopped with an error” and “once that was resolved, it was fine.” Now that that is fixed, all seems to be well with my site.