jcdoesnotlikespam Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Hi all, The Captcha is running, running always and does not appear so I cant' register. Any help would be great, best regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcdoesnotlikespam Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 Seem to be a sordid problem of Firefox, it succeeds with Safari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Glad to hear you found a solution. I am surprised FF had an issue. I opened a test account without issue using FF v63. Do you have cookies enabled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcdoesnotlikespam Posted November 2, 2018 Author Share Posted November 2, 2018 I saw several posts about such problem, but not a solution in my case. I have also FF 63 on Mac El Capitan and cookies are enabled. Any way my connexion is now active, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 If you made it through the process using Safari, received your password email from SpamCop and then logged in using Safari (because of cookies) the account should be active. You should then be able to go back to FF and use the account there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guido.mazzone Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 I have the same problem, with both Chrome and Firefox, I also tried with two different IP addresses, so I'm almost sure it's not a problem caused by my computer or connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcit Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Hello, I have the same issue with both Firefox and Chrome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 (edited) On 2/21/2020 at 4:11 AM, guido.mazzone said: I have the same problem, with both Chrome and Firefox, I also tried with two different IP addresses, so I'm almost sure it's not a problem caused by my computer or connection. For Windows pays to download free version of Ccleaner Be warned it may need extra program to be unchecked (tries to load other software), no need to update (it is nag-ware) but your choice. It will clean out all cookies, but you can select "options" to save needed cookies Edited February 26, 2020 by petzl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcit Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I don't use Windows. I investigated a bit the JS code and there's an issue with the way the headers are generated for the AJAX calls that fetches the captcha picture. Changing at line 18 of captcha.js the following "Last-Modified": new Date(0), "If-Modified-Since": new Date(0) to "Last-Modified": (new Date(0)).toISOString(), "If-Modified-Since": (new Date(0)).toISOString() fixes it. Otherwise you get a "TypeError: Cannot convert string to ByteString because the character at index 50 has value 8217 which is greater than 255." probably because without the toISOString method date contains UTF-8 characters instead of ASCII ones (which are required for HTTP headers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, tcit said: I don't use Windows. I investigated a bit the JS code and there's an issue with the way the headers are generated for the AJAX calls that fetches the captcha picture. try to register in "Safe mode"? Know nothing about Apple computers but others report their virus program/other software/even spyware interfering with Captcha Edited February 26, 2020 by petzl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent67x Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 (edited) hi , been 3 days i'm trying to subscribe to spamcop without being able to display this bugged captcha ... apparently this problem remains for years and been reported a lot of time .. and not been solved .. i tried firefox , chrome, edge on windows 11 , on my phone i tried samsung internet browser , i tried duckduckgo browser , none being able to display this stu%@!#pid (lol) captcha .. i tried disabling antivirus , tried to restart safe mode , etc nothing working, i was starting to think to go dev mode (wtf) ... but finally i thought about testing with safari with a virtualbox macos virtual machine and it worked (nope i won't waste money and buy a mac for this absurd subscribe form)... seriously this is ..i don't have the words to discribe how ridiculous this is and the time wasted fyi subscribing to this forum is done in 1mn , seriously .. are you sure you want people to report spam ? this bugged captcha is not helping at all Edited March 4, 2023 by laurent67x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bidh Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 On 3/4/2023 at 1:27 PM, laurent67x said: i'm trying to subscribe to spamcop without being able to display this bugged captcha ... apparently this problem remains for years and been reported a lot of time .. and not been solved .. seriously .. are you sure you want people to report spam ? this bugged captcha is not helping at all I have the same doubt regarding the usefulness of spamcop reporting. It's been 5 years already. On 10/29/2018 at 7:01 PM, jcdoesnotlikespam said: Hi all, The Captcha is running, running always and does not appear so I cant' register. Any help would be great, best regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 I just have solved with Edge Browser (Chromium Based) in Windows 10 using the option "reloading the page in Microsoft Internet Explorer mode" the captcha image appeared and the registering process finally worked. This is the easy solution for non expert users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingko Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 (edited) On 6/23/2023 at 11:01 PM, Anna said: I just have solved with Edge Browser (Chromium Based) in Windows 10 using the option "reloading the page in Microsoft Internet Explorer mode" the captcha image appeared and the registering process finally worked. This is the easy solution for non expert users. Thank you for this answer. It effectively works, and I successfully created a (second) account that way. And believed it or not, even having reported this, there are people here, you report this problem, you tell them that you tried your solution and that it works, they still don't want to believe it, nor even to try it. (follow this link) Edited July 8, 2023 by Gingko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 (edited) On 7/8/2023 at 7:09 AM, Gingko said: Thank you for this answer. It effectively works, and I successfully created a (second) account that way. And believed it or not, even having reported this, there are people here, you report this problem, you tell them that you tried your solution and that it works, they still don't want to believe it, nor even to try it. (follow this link) I was happy that after a lot of time and tryings I was finally able to register an account in the site, and I perfectly understand the frustration for that non working captcha, that's why I wanted to share here my simple workaround hoping it would help someone else. Obviously, after having tried several different browsers with no positive outcome and also after trying to follow this other solution which is for my skills a bit too complicate to execute correctly. In the past I also tried to report the bug, follwing this link Help >> How can I contact a SpamCop representative? but unfortunately even the reporting form is afflicted by the captcha issue, as you can see Also, a long time ago I sent an email to report the issue but I after an year I received no answers. So I really doubt that the captcha will be ever fixed, but since this workaround worked and I finally registered an account I am glad for being of any help. Edited July 11, 2023 by Anna moved up images Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobiBue Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 I am using Mozilla Firefox, and haven't encountered the captcha problem. here's what my "contact a spamcop representative" page looks like: captcha works for me, and clicking on the reload arrows () for new captchas works as well and is pretty fast loading them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingko Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 (edited) Which system? Which version? Seems to work on Linux, for example. Anyway, the number of configuration cases where it doesn't work seems to be largely higher than the working cases. You should ask yourself why. It is the Spamcop responsibility to ensure it works in ALL (reasonably expectable) cases. And it is NOT the responsibility of users to dig in the mud in order to find a working case for them. Edited July 12, 2023 by Gingko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, RobiBue said: I am using Mozilla Firefox, and haven't encountered the captcha problem. Besides Edge, I am using Mozilla Firefox too, uptodate to the latest version but unfortunately, the captcha still doesn't work for me in both pages Edited July 12, 2023 by Anna deleted duplicated image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninth Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Try your luck at signal spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingko Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 On 7/12/2023 at 1:27 PM, ninth said: Try your luck at signal spam I always report on Signal-spam along with Spamcop for a long time. But … Signal-spam is mostly a French centred organisation. Are you telling me that the arrogant natural tendency of French people (I have French nationality) to believe that France is the center of the world is actually justified, at least about spam-fighting? 😁😃😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninth Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Beware of cheap imitations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 1 hour ago, ninth said: Beware of cheap imitations Yep.https://www.spamcop.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimas Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Hi, I've faced this problem today as well, when trying to register. @tcit's solution (modifying the bits related to headers in captcha.js) helped me. I believe I know why not everyone faces the issue: as mentioned in @tcit's response, this problem only surfaces when an attempt to place non-ascii characters in the HTTP headers are made, and this doesn't happen to everyone. In my case, it happened because my browser locale, as well as my OS locale, are Lithuanian, so the following code: new Date(0).toString() (note: `toString()` was added by me here) produces the following response in the browser console: Quote Thu Jan 01 1970 03:00:00 GMT+0300 (Rytų Europos žiemos laikas) Note how the name of the time zone is in Lithuanian and contains a couple accented letters. Meanwhile, the code, as suggested by @tcit, looks like this: new Date(0).toISOString() and produces the following output: Quote 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z I finally managed to register after adding a breakpoint in line 20 of `captcha.js` and running a modified `$.ajaxSetup()` call in browser console. BTW, the problem happens in both Firefox and Chromium. I'm so surprised this has stayed unfixed for years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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