Recaptcha 404s Errors

Question

What could I do to try and troubleshoot a re-captcha that had previous been working but now returns a 404 when trying to access the javascript file.

I don't think it's a coding issue because they were up this afternoon.

For what it's worth both my sites using re-captcha have the same issue.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I believe the reCaptcha service may be experiencing issues. I have multiple websites that are all receiving 404 errors. I know for sure at least 2 of them were working a couple of hours ago.

This is the error I am seeing: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/js/recapcha_1-XXXXXXXX.js

I've also just found a few other posts with people experiencing the same issue.

Answer 2

It appears to be a global problem at the moment. Twitter feed for reCaptcha has many, many tweets.

Answer 3

For a quick fix, using Chrome's console I went to the "Sources" tab and edited the URL. Just change recapcha_1-XXXXXXXX.js to recapcha_ajax.js and save the change.

Answer 4

Please, make sure that you have version 2 in web config recaptcha api.

Version one doesn't run properly

add key="recaptchaApiVersion" value="2"