puppeteer-extra: [Bug] captcha error: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_PROTOCOL]: Protocol "https:" not supported. Expected "http:"

Hello, We are getting this strange error when using your plugin + 2captcha on https://www.txtag.org/txtagstorefront/en/login. Is this related to a recent update? It used to work very recently. Thanks!

PuppeteerExtraPluginRecaptcha: An error occured during "getRecaptchaSolutions": { _vendor: 'recaptcha',
  provider: '2captcha',
  id: 'r47e8g9qcfup',
  requestAt: 2021-03-15T21:28:43.036Z,
  error:
   'Error: 2captcha error: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_PROTOCOL]: Protocol "https:" not supported. Expected "http:"' }
SNAPSHOT: Error
  step 1
  url: https://www.txtag.org/txtagstorefront/en/login

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)

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@alamothe @Inamacio @Porkts please upgrade to puppeteer-extra-plugin-recaptcha@3.3.7 which (properly) reverts back to use the http API - apologies for the inconvenience. 😓

berstend on Mar 16, 2021

I just noticed this issue when I was looking at the latest PR to switch to HTTPS: https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/pull/457

I think that error message means that the http module was used to try to make an HTTPS request, not that 2captcha doesn’t support HTTPS. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34147372/node-js-error-protocol-https-not-supported-expected-http. From what I’ve seen, 2captcha supports HTTPS and I’ve never had a problem using it.

That new PR removes the http module entirely, so if there was a bug in the logic about when to use the http module and when to use the https, it might be fixed.

Tyler-Murphy on Mar 24, 2021