Verify hangs, returning "503 Service Unavailable"

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Hi,

This is a truly perplexing one.

I've set-up a reCaptcha using the Java module, and it's working a
charm on my development server.

However, when I try to run it via the production environment, the
submission appear to hang and eventually fails.

I've had a dig around the server to check the proxy was configured
correctly, and it is. I even tried to call the verify URL (http://api-
verify.recaptcha.net/verify) directly using "wget", and it too hangs
for a while, finally returning a 503 Service Unavailable. I have no
problem using "wget" to make requests to google.com, however.

I've tried this on several servers in the production environment, and
they all get 503s. My desktop works fine, the dev servers work fine.
However my colleague who's on the same LAN says it hangs for him.

Here's what "wget" says (the 10.0.3.254:3128 mentioned is my proxy);


$ wget http://api-verify.recaptcha.net/verify
--17:38:23-- http://api-verify.recaptcha.net/verify
=> `verify'
Connecting to 10.0.3.254:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable
17:39:07 ERROR 503: Service Unavailable.


and here's the same server snagging da Goog's homepage;

$ wget http://google.co.uk/
--17:50:35-- http://google.co.uk/
=> `index.html.6'
Connecting to 10.0.3.254:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.google.co.uk/ [following]
--17:50:35-- http://www.google.co.uk/
=> `index.html.6'
Connecting to 10.0.3.254:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

[ <=> ] 8,350 --.--K/s

17:50:35 (1008.30 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [8350]

Any help or a nudge in the right direction would be greatly
appreciated!

Gareth

[krishna mohan]

 

 

Try : wget --no-proxy http://api-verify.recaptcha.net/verify
--17:38:23-- http://api-verify.recaptcha.net/verify

 

It will connect.

 

Thanks,

Krishna Mohan