ASP.NET : reCaptcha with proxy

 

If you need reCaptcha in your project, this is a really good one to use. it’s also available as a NuGet package.

The only problem is that it doesn’t use a proxy. There is a Proxy attribute in the control but it inherits from IWebProxy and I couldn’t figure out how to set it.

So (with the help of TortoiseSVN) I grabbed the source and added this code to

public RecaptchaResponse Validate() in RecaptchaValidator.cs

//if (this.proxy != null)
//{
      //request.Proxy = this.proxy;
      IWebProxy rProxy = WebRequest.GetSystemWebProxy();
      string login = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["reCaptchaLogin"];
      string password = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["reCaptchaPassword"];
      if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(login))
             rProxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(login, password);
      else
             rProxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
      request.Proxy = rProxy;
//}

and then I added an appsettings to the web.config in the Tests directory

<appSettings>
    <!-- Needed to get past proxy -->
    <add key="reCaptchaLogin" value="" />
    <add key="reCaptchaPassword" value="" />
</appSettings>

Problem solved!

Enjoy!