Recaptcha scripts are down

[Jeff Kee]

The iFrame call works, but the subsequent javascript calls are failing with a 404 result, rendering the recaptcha functions unusable, and our sites are broken.


What returns a 404:
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/js/recaptcha_1-e3a660e7_c1849509_ebefbc3e_56669459_c27efc52.js

Everything in the following script sample loads fine.. both the .JS and the iFrame content. But the .js calling another javascript through AJAX is choking. 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/challenge?k=6LeIr8sSAAAAAI-N1R5wWWbsay7Ivgqyfpx9Z30o"></script>
<noscript>
<iframe src="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/noscript?k=6LeIr8sSAAAAAI-N1R5wWWbsay7Ivgqyfpx9Z30o" height="300" width="500" frameborder="0"></iframe><br>
<textarea name="recaptcha_challenge_field" rows="3" cols="40">
</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="recaptcha_response_field" value="manual_challenge">
</noscript>

[Jeff Kee]

Even your own DEMO is down!!!! 

[Sergio Behrends]

Definitely not working around the globe... On twitter are various tweets about it.

[Kenneth Carlo Santos]

Down here also, (location Santa Monica, CA)

[abby ewald]

Yes the whole Captcha is down, I looked at the API http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api and it says 404 not found. Is there any direct emails to contact them with?

[Roman Vidyayev]

Also broken:

[ep...@cevo.com]

All my sites using recaptch are down as well. Anybody have an ETA?

[Chun How Ng]

Not working on mine as well. 

[abby ewald]

I notice it comes up for a few seconds then goes back down, can't wait to start using my custom captcha and not recaptcha it actually goes down a lot for short bursts. It's useless anyways against deathbycaptcha you guys may want to start looking at a new solution. 

[Al Cain]

Recaptcha also down on my sites. England.

[Matthew Phipps]

Recaptcha also down on my sites  florida.

[Ramunas Blavasciunas]

It is down on all my sites too.

[Matthew Phipps]

i too decided to use my custom captcha.

[B W]

Down for me, as well (Florida). Been trying to register for Wordpress.org and thought it was THEM, until I realized thy are using the reCaptcha API, as well. Grrr... so frustrating. Is there anywhere else to look for updates or known issues related to this?

[B W]

Oops, I lied, it JUST came back online for Wordpress.org.

[abby ewald]

It was up for a bit then went down again......

On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:14:10 PM UTC-5, Alessandro Merc wrote:

Yep, down on my site.

Op donderdag 23 januari 2014 01:12:11 UTC+1 schreef Jeff Kee:

[radionul]

Heh, I should have checked this website first, I just spent the past hour going through all my code and renewing my captcha keys. Silly me.

For once it wasn't me!!!

[Dave Jensen]

Any chance someone has a link to the terms on this?  I wonder if Google will even dig into this...  Obviously it hasn't merited a reply yet an it has been down for coming up on 4 hours now.

[Alessandro Merc]

It appears to be up again.

[ep...@cevo.com]

Up now for me too

[Cameron Keller]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:12:11 PM UTC-8, Jeff Kee wrote:

I was just looking on reddit and everyone one with the issue it seemed also had Doge Coin. I'm not a developer but could this be related?  

[Dave Jensen]

I'm seeing that as well from my sites.

[Al Cain]

Seems it's fixed now. Working again on my sites. England

[Kalin Hicks]

Anyone know if there is a way to monitor the health of the recaptcha service?  

[Dave Jensen]

Honestly the best way is to handle exceptions and bypass when they are encountered.  You're going to do mock recaptcha calls to monitor the service, and if you're going to do that, you might as well make the calls from your site monitor it and allow for bypass when it is down.  

[Tom Wilson]

I'm still getting a 404 error.  Is anyone else seeing this?

The demo site posted in the screen shot also gives me a 404 error as well.

It looks like this works..

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/ajax

Is google trying to move everyone to this new format?

Is there any documentation on this?

Thanks!

Tom