Google Recaptcha missing-input-secret
Was trying to make Google Recaptcha work but kept getting failed attempts and the error missing-input-secret
back.
After checking 100 times that my secret key was correct, I realized they want URL parameters in the POST request to validate the captcha value.
I was sending the values in the body:
const response = await fetch('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify', {
method: "POST",
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
secret: CAPTCHA_SITE_SECRET,
response: CAPTCHA_VALUE_FROM_CLIENT
})
})
Instead, this worked:
const response = await fetch('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?'
+ new URLSearchParams({
secret: CAPTCHA_SITE_SECRET,
response: CAPTCHA_VALUE_FROM_CLIENT
}), {
method: "POST",
})
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