BridgeDB does not give out bridges but complains with "Processing Failed"

A user reported in #tor that BridgeDB does not give out bridges over the web interface anymore. Instead it responds with "Processing Failed".

added component::circumvention/bridgedb owner::isis priority::very high resolution::worksforme severity::major status::closed type::defect labels

#23609 (moved) is a duplicate.

Trac:
Cc: N/A to arma

I think this person also DMed me on IRC. I'd kind of like to know what they were doing, if they are still around and getting that response, as the server only does this if you respond to the CAPTCHA page with a POST request which contains too much data in the URL. The amount of data for a normal CAPTCHA solution is well below the limit, which I think is something like 4KB.

Trac:
Status: new to needs_information

Replying to isis:

I think this person also DMed me on IRC. I'd kind of like to know what they were doing, if they are still around and getting that response, as the server only does this if you respond to the CAPTCHA page with a POST request which contains too much data in the URL. The amount of data for a normal CAPTCHA solution is well below the limit, which I think is something like 4KB.

See #23609 (moved) for what they, arma, and I did. There was no response with a POST request etc. involved. The CAPTCHA page did not even show up. It works now again fwiw. Seems like a WORKSFORME now.

Trac:
Status: needs_information to assigned

Replying to gk:

See #23609 (moved) for what they, arma, and I did. There was no response with a POST request etc. involved. The CAPTCHA page did not even show up. It works now again fwiw. Seems like a WORKSFORME now.

I can confirm all of this, didn't even show up the captcha for me then, and it worked for me now.

Replying to cypherpunks:

Replying to gk:

See #23609 (moved) for what they, arma, and I did. There was no response with a POST request etc. involved. The CAPTCHA page did not even show up. It works now again fwiw. Seems like a WORKSFORME now.

I can confirm all of this, didn't even show up the captcha for me then, and it worked for me now.

Cool, thanks for confirming! I'll add some extra debug log messages and try to figure out how this happens.

Trac:
Resolution: N/A to worksforme
Status: assigned to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #23609 (moved)

moved to tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#23596 (closed)