CAPTCHA Image Sometimes Not Displaying

  • Resolved Zabaan

    (@zabaan)


    11 years ago

    Hello,

    My URL is zabaan.com and I’m using the theme Aggregate (3.3) by Elegant Themes.

    As you can see if you visit my site, CAPTCHA images are displaying correctly within the Contact Form in the sidebar about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time the image fails to display. In Firefox the image just comes up as ‘captcha’ and in Chrome it looks like a broken image.

    I’m running the latest versions of Contact Form 7 (3.5.4) and Really Simple CAPTCHA (1.7).

    I also checked with my hosting provider to insure I have GD and FreeType PHP Libraries installed. I got this response:

    Gd version you have installed can be found below:

    gd-2.0.33-9.4.el5_4.2
    Also the FreeType php libraries were found.
    freetype-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1
    freetype-devel-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1

    I also tried deactivating all my other plugins, but it made no difference.

    The permissions on the folder wp-content / Uploads / wpcf7_captcha is now at 777.

    So now I’m at a loss as to what could be causing the problem.

    Thanks very much for any assistance!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    I checked your site with Firebug. When it works correctly, the <img> tag for CAPTCHA image is like this:

    <img width="60" height="20" src="https://zabaan.com/wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha/706946449.png" alt="captcha" class="wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-captchac wpcf7-captcha-captcha-354">

    And when it fails, it is like this:

    <img width="60" height="20" src="https://zabaan.com/wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha/60x20x594459605.png.pagespeed.ic.-Mi1C3zg9A.png" alt="captcha" class="wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-captchac wpcf7-captcha-captcha-354">

    with this error:

    NetworkError: 403 Forbidden – https://zabaan.com/wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha/60x20x594459605.png.pagespeed.ic.-Mi1C3zg9A.png

    As seemingly it is a PageSpeed trouble, why not try checking your PageSpeed settings?

    Thread Starter Zabaan

    (@zabaan)

    Thank you very much, that was indeed the problem. Technical support at my hosting provider fixed the page speed settings and the CAPTCHA is now working fine all the time.

    hello all,

    I am having the same issue. Where do I set this PageSpeed setting that you speak of? And what would I set it too? Is it an Apache.conf setting?

    Thank you,

    Tin

    I got the error again in Google Chrome. This time I checked the console window and the error I received was:

    “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
    https://bluegemini.ca/files/wpc7_captcha/902213825.png&#8221;

    Any ideas? I tried to open the resource in a separate window but the error I received was “404 – file not found”. This happens like about 25 % of the time. Like Zabaan said: it doesn’t happen 75% of the time.

    Thank you,

    Tin

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