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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: Sournote on October 26, 2011, 06:09 pm

Title: Can't read Captcha.
Post by: Sournote on October 26, 2011, 06:09 pm

Been trying to resume my SR transactions for a bit now and there's a new problem. For some reason suddenly I can't view the Captcha on the SR log-in page, making it impossible to log in. Is anyone else getting this?

Title: Re: Can't read Captcha.
Post by: Bob Arctor on October 26, 2011, 06:37 pm

refresh doesn't help?
It could be related to this
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=4512.0

But for me everything is working fine.

Title: Re: Can't read Captcha.
Post by: Variety Jones on October 28, 2011, 04:11 pm

This post is a couple of days old, so I'll assume that the original poster has managed to get signed in ok.

I'll just leave this here for anyone else that may be experiencing a problem.

It boils down to the fact that you have to be patient, and understand how your browser renders the sign in page. When you visit the page, your browser sends the request to the server for the HTML page it needs to render that page. Using Tor, this can take quite a while, sometimes over a minute.

Now, when that HTML gets there, your browser parses it and renders it on your screen. Images are not rendered yet because your browser didn't know it needed any images, that information was in the HTML it just received. So your browser sends out another request, this time for the Capcha image. The time it takes to get the image is subject to the same vagaries of the Tor protocol, and can take anywhere from a couple of seconds to a minute or two.

So if you see the text, but not the image, and your browser shows that it's still loading, that image is on it's way, even if it is getting there slower than shit.

tl:dr: Be patient, wait for the image to load, it can sometimes take a lonnnnnnng time.