Posting Comments on BlogEngine - blogs

I don't seem to be able to post comments on my blog anymore.
The blog was put together by my predecessor at the company where I work using BlogEngine.
The error message says:
Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: challenge
I'm not sure what the cause is but I believe it has to do with the change of url of Google's recaptcha plugin. I've done some research on this and the address does seem to have changed.
Apologies if this is a bit vague, but I was wondering if anyone has experienced this issue with BlogEngine.

I'm not sure if you're facing the same issue but I had an issue with comments being posted on my blogengine blog where when you click on submit nothing happens. After a lot of digging it was a result of having the HTTP/axd compression settings turned on in blogengine.
You could try to play around with these and see if that makes a difference.
Cheers,
D

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Hosting Static Webpage on GCP

I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum. I'm a student trying to learn the GCP product
I've read previous articles on the site with my issue but none with a solution.
I have read and reread and watched video's and still I can't get my page to display without using the ugly URL https://storage.googleapis.com/www.westcoastmutualaid.com/index.htm if I try doing it without I get a message saying This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
I'm just not sure what I have done wrong or where I went wrong. Any help would really be appreciated.

How to enable inline quick edit in Blogger?

In Blogger, I need to edit a page all the time, because of frequent updates. Each time I want to edit the content, I am redirected to the editing page, like what happens on a Stack Exchange site for a new user trying to edit content.
Is it possible to add a real time quick--inline (Ajax?)--editing customization to Blogger, like the one a Stack Exchange user gets at 2,000 reputation (See the attached picture)? This will help me in reducing lot of unwanted wastage of time.
Edit: I searched for inline WYSIWYG editors, and found TinyMce; but don't have proper idea on going through the process of integrating it. The process of integrating it is going through complex steps, if anyone has any quick steps for integrating it, it will be helpful.
Picture Link:
Quick Edit in Stack Exchange at 2,000 or more reputation
Edit (2/2/17): I am now trying Open Live Writer, which doesn't give inline editing ability inside the site itself, but instead in its own field interface with the looks of the original blog. This doesn't help in seeing the blog being updated live in the web, but it will be updated even if not seen. To see it we need to make an extra step of looking it in the web, this is still a step which could be eliminated. This is better than before, but I am still looking for inline editing within the blogger site as like StackExhcange does.
As the creator of the question said on the comments, he asked the question on Google Product Forums and the formal response was:
There's no such a native feature available for inline editing.
There's no Blogger plugin supported that could resolve the issue.
The full response can be found here:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/nzGbwr92zjY;context-place=forum/blogger

Starting off with Mozilla development/contribution to Fennec

This is the first time I am trying to contribute to Mozilla. I went through several articles and documentation/resources to get a hang of what could be the best first steps to get started. I started off from this page http://whatcanidoformozilla.org1 and chose to start off with Java.
On initial tinkering I was taken to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Get_Involved and eventually https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/Suggested_workflow resource suggested that the best way to get started with it would be to pick up some simple bug and propose a patch for it.
So then I went to http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?java=1&simple=1 and this specific bug drew my attention. The description of the bug mentioned this :
There are some methods that we share (or can share) across our DB
implementations, like appending PARAM_SHOW_DELETED, PARAM_LIMIT, or
PARAM_PROFILE.
These are currently spread across LocalBrowserDB, TabsAccessor,
URLMetadata, and so on. It'd be nice to clean these up.
Question 1. Now how do I get some more context on what exactly is the bug and what is required to be done ?
As of now there seems to be 2 patches already submitted from what I understood (and please correct if my understanding is wrong here). So to get some context about the bug I went ahead and opened up the first patch submitted here.
It gave me some idea as to at least where exactly is the code itself that needs to be fixed. And I found it here
Question 2. Am I on the right track on how to figure out the code that needs to be fixed ?
Question 3. Even after reaching the DBUtils.java file I could not find any documentation about what the class basically does, or where does it fit into the whole picture. Could someone please help me with this, as to how do I figure out what a class is supposed to be doing etc. or at least some documentation around it?
You're on the right path. Basically, the What Can I Do For Mozilla website is a quick and easy way to let you discover projects you might be interested in, so it's the first gateway to the coding contributions.
That said, you did good in picking a bug to start off. However, as you saw the bug was already being worked on by somebody else (marked as Assigned). Your best bet is to find some new "good first bug" to work on. This might be a complicated task, as Bug's Ahoy shows only a few not owned good first bugs.
You should try to get in touch with the Fennec team, either via email or IRC (the latter for quicker responses).
Now, to answer your questions, in a more general way
Question 1. Now how do I get some more context on what exactly is the
bug and what is required to be done ?
Usually, this should be described in the first comment in the bug, on Bugzilla. If that's not the case, feel free to drop a message there and ask for more directions. You can also flag the reporter or the mentor of the bug using the needinfo functionality, as they are usually better shown.
As you can see, somebody asked for more info in comment 1 and some new directions were given.
In general, you won't find a patch with code on the bug itself, but you might find links to files and more precise directions on what to change and how. If not, again, feel free to ping the reporter and/or mentor.
Question 2. Am I on the right track on how to figure out the code that
needs to be fixed ?
You're on the right path. In general, if there are no links to files or DXR on the bug, but some code is mentioned, you can look it up using DXR, as you did.
Question 3. Even after reaching the DBUtils.java file I could not find
any documentation about what the class basically does, or where does
it fit into the whole picture. Could someone please help me with this,
as to how do I figure out what a class is supposed to be doing etc. or
at least some documentation around it?
What I usually do when navigating the Firefox code and need some more background on a not so well documented class, is browse the change log for that file, clicking on the Log button in the top-right panel on DXR (when displaying the file). It will show you a list of bugs that affected the file. You can even trace back the original file that implemented it, to get more context.
On the other hand, if you're only interested to the history of a single line of code within a file, then the blame tool is your friend. It tells you who last touched the line, the changeset and the related bug number. That is also accessible from where you can find the Log, here.
In the case of DBUtils.java, however, it looks like the class just holds some utility functions for database access.
To see how something is being used within the Firefox codebase, you can still use DXR. Here's a sample search for the DBUtils object.

Site hacked using DNS x-dns-prefetch-control

One of my sites came up as hacked on Google recently so I have been trying to fix the problem. When I looked at it using a browser, everything looked normal, but when I looked at it using "Fetch as Google" a load of junk came up after the first meta tag. I got rid of the spurious code by adding:
<http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off">
to the header, but my question is: Does anyone have any idea how this could have happened please? I am on an IIS server but when speaking to the host company (123-reg) they said that it was not possible for their server to be hacked. Has anyone else had this sort of problem?
I have fixed the issue on the surface but I am concerned with where the vulnerability lies.
Thanks in advance for any help with this matter.

Facebook comments and moderation tool "Sorry, something went wrong."

It's been like 3 days with this eerror which I thought was from fb's side. I had already a working comment box, but 3 days ago it started to show:
Sorry, something went wrong.
We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.
Going to the moderation tool page shows the same too http://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments .
Curiously though, my comment boxes in other pages are working as supposed to. The affected page is just a personal one of mine: http://efaj.tumblr.com/
From what I've searched, I've only found either old information or unrelated
Yes it is a known new issue with Tumblr and Facebook,
I created a bug report about it here and if you want then you can subscribe to it.
Clear your browsers cookies. That will fix it.