Joomla built-in Recaptcha plugin does not work, uses old URL

[Richard67]

Hello,

I am more or less new and have never reported a bug.

There is a discussion thread

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http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=615&t=690921&p=2746420&e=2746420

related to the Joomla built-in Recaptcha plugin not working.

A friendly user named CupAfull has found the reason:

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http://groups.google.com/group/recaptcha-announce/browse_thread/thread/c1ff6844420c9e63?pli=1

After I followed this by changing line 25 of plugins/captcha/recaptcha/recaptcha.php to following, everything worked:

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const RECAPTCHA_API_SECURE_SERVER = "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api";

I have posted this in the thread mentioned above, and have posted necessary commands for both Windows and Linux hosts to find out which files of Joomla extensions have to be corrected, too.

What has to be done now that the Joomla team takes notice of this and fixes it within a future release?

And how can extension providers be informed?

Best regards,

Richard