It has been seen that if you have not set ErrorInputTooFast and ErrorInputTooSlow messages the code throws 'NullReferenceException' when the CaptchaMaxTimeout time period has passed.
I have set the following properties as well to get this working without NullReferenceException
ErrorInputTooFast="Image text was typed too quickly."
ErrorInputTooSlow="Image text was typed too slowly."
my implementation is as below and i have set CaptchaMaxTimeout as 20 sec to see if this issue persists.
<uc:CaptchaControl ID="CaptchaUserControl" runat="server" Height="50px" ValidationGroup="PageValidationGroup"
CustomValidatorErrorMessage="The text you entered did not match up with the image provided"
Width="180px" CaptchaLength="5" FontColor="#000000" BackColor="#e6db55" NoiseColor="#26557f"
CaptchaLineNoise="None" CaptchaFontWarping="Low" ImageTag="border='1'" CaptchaBackgroundNoise="Medium"
ErrorInputTooFast="Image text was typed too quickly. " ErrorInputTooSlow="Image text was typed too slowly."
CaptchaMaxTimeout="20" CaptchaMinTimeout="2" EnableViewState="False" />
<asp:TextBox ID="CapthaTextBox" runat="server" MaxLength="10" Width="180px" AutoCompleteType="Disabled"/>
code behind
private void AppendValidationErrorMessage( string message)
{
var cv = new CustomValidator();
cv.IsValid = false;
cv.ErrorMessage = message;
cv.ValidationGroup = "PageValidationGroup";
this.Page.Validators.Add(cv);
}
protected void SubmitButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
this.CaptchaUserControl.ValidateCaptcha(CapthaTextBox.Text.GetTrimValue());
if (!this.CaptchaUserControl.UserValidated)
{
this.AppendValidationErrorMessage(this.CaptchaUserControl.CustomValidatorErrorMessage);
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
this.AppendValidationErrorMessage(
"Captcha expired please please reload the page.Note: please copy the data before refreshing data");
}
this.CapthaTextBox.Text = string.Empty;
if (this.Page.IsValid) //&& this.CaptchaUserControl.UserValidated
{
//do something
}
}