recaptcha issue 'Please complete the anti-spam verification'

Question

been trying to get recaptcha to work, both the built in plugin and the 'google reCAPTCHA' third party plugin, both exhibit the same behavior. i've registered correctly with google, and i get the recaptcha images correctly on the registration form. whenever i try to register, i always get 'Please complete the anti-spam verification' dispite a correct input.

logs are saying things like this:

file_get_contents(): Failed to enable crypto in /question2answer/qa-plugin/google-recaptcha/recaptchalib.php

and

file_get_contents(): SSL: Connection reset by peer in /question2answer/qa-plugin/google-recaptcha/recaptchalib.php on line 94

 

site is running https so i think that has something to do with it but i'm stumped.. anyone? thanks much!

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Answer 1

Sounds like an issue with SSL or HTTPS connections. Maybe one of these will help:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14078182/openssl-file-get-contents-failed-to-enable-crypto

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26148701/file-get-contents-ssl-operation-failed-with-code-1-and-more

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1975461/file-get-contents-with-https