Tom, Rhys, thanks for testing this.
We seem to have three different experiences using Tor Browser for
accessing the IETF web site. I suppose this can have approximately as
many explanations as there are permutations of operating systems,
browsers, browser plugins and phases of numerous moons.
I think that the productive way forward from here is to open an issue
with the service provider, CloudFlare. I'm happy to provide end user
experience information in such a case.
Tom Thorogood <me+lists(_dot_)ietf(_at_)tomthorogood(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:01:52 +0930:
| Although I couldn't read the present string (because it was in what
| appeared to be Polish), I can confirm that I can successfully access
| <https://www.ietf.org/> through Tor after completing the captcah without
| JavaScript. It worked without any problems (except the language bit but
| that doesn't really count).
|
| Regards,
| Tom Thorogood.
|
| On 17/09/14 17:44, Rhys Smith wrote:
| > On 17 Sep 2014, at 08:41, Leif Johansson <leifj(_at_)mnt(_dot_)se> wrote:
| >
| >> Its a ToR thing. You get hit by captchas when you aproach from a ToR
| >> exit node.
| >>
| >> I think ToR users are fine with that (generally speaking).
| >>
| >> I don't understand why you need JS for presenting a basic captcha. For
| >> instance recaptcha doesn't need plugins:
| >> https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/display>
| > Well, it looks like maybe it’s *supposed* to work without JS - if
| > you have JS disabled it presents the captcha in a slightly different
| > way (saying "To make this process easier in the future, we recommend
| > you enable Javascript.”), and then if you answer correctly it gives
| > you a 186 character string to copy then paste into a second text
| > box. When you do that, what happens with me in the Tor Browser is
| > instead of letting you get to the site, it just starts the whole
| > captcha process off again from scratch.
| >
| > A bug in CloudFlare’s stuff?
| >
| > Rhys.
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| >
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