[LINK] Renewing your drivers licence online

[Narelle]

It may also be your privacy settings meaning your browser is not
retaining their cookies...

Not that I agree with this as a web site approach, but...

In another example - the NSW manage your toll payment system REQUIRES
you to agree to 14 pages of terms before you can log in.

This means you have to agree (ie clickwrap) to an onerous set of terms
and conditions that apply to all aspects of the toll system just to
update a minor thing.

Ridiculous.


Narelle


On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at vitendo.ca> wrote:
> Perhaps your browser is not supported. My SeaMonkey my Mozilla is not:
>
> https://support.google.com/recaptcha#6223828
>
> Abominable!
>
> cheers
> rickw
>
> p.s. I had a look at some of their obfuscated Javascript source code, which
> I assume is
> an attempt to subverb robots. Quite vile stuff.
>
>
>
>
> Stephen Loosley wrote:
>>
>>
>> https://areallygoodrantblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/how-to-renew-your-drivers-licence-online-in-new-south-wales/
>>
>>
>> How to renew your drivers licence online in New South Wales
>>
>> The Roads And Traffic Authority (RTA) of New South Wales, Australia, has a
>> fantastic feature to renew your drivers licence online.
>>
>>
>> https://my.service.nsw.gov.au/MyServiceNSW/index#/rms/trans/renewLicence/login
>>
>> The Problem
>>
>> It doesn’t actually work. As soon as you hit renew via the above link and
>> click register for an account you will be prompted to fill in a recaptcha
>> that isn’t actually there.
>>
>> Any attempt to register will ask you to please verify that you’re not a
>> robot despite that being impossible. This error has been happening for the
>> past week for me. No fix in sight. Now that it’s the weekend I’ve got time
>> to find a way to make this work.
>>
>> Am I a Robot?
>>
>> Assuming i’m not actually a robot… there must be something broken on the
>> site. Using Chrome lets inspect and find out.
>>
>> Bingo! The website has a local copy of a script, recaptcha.js that then
>> tries to fetch a URL hosted directly via Google. Someone at Google has moved
>> that URL at some point in history, presumably a simple version upgrade and
>> the RTA website has been broken ever since. Lesson to be learnt here. Be
>> very careful using third party Javascript libraries on your site.
>>
>> Ok lets work around this
>>
>> I really can’t go into an RTA office. I’m overseas right now and I need to
>> renew my licence.
>>
>> Google has a demo of recaptcha. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
>>
>> This has the above files (albeit a newer version) load successfully except
>> they’re from a different URL. We could at this point create a webserver and
>> host the files and hack our hosts file up, install a fake certificate auth,
>> etc.
>>
>> But it’s easier to use a browser plugin. I ended up going with Switcheroo
>> for Chrome. No affiliation to that plugin, i promise! It’s just the first
>> plugin for the task at hand that came up.
>>
>>
>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/switcheroo-redirector/cnmciclhnghalnpfhhleggldniplelbg?hl=en
>>
>> We simply replace the recaptcha.js URL that the RTA website uses with the
>> URL that the Google uses.
>>
>> Specifically i’m replacing via the above plugin
>>
>>
>> https://my.service.nsw.gov.au/MyServiceNSW/resource/1497728015000/snswAssets/recaptcha.js
>>
>> with
>>
>> https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/api2/r20170717162708/recaptcha__en.js
>>
>>
>> Easy and convenient!
>>
>> The option is now there and we can register an RTA online account and
>> proceed with renewing our drivers licence online!
>>
>> I can confirm it all works for me now and my licence is renewed.
>>
>> This should also fix any issues you have doing online car registrations.
>> Hopefully the RTA will fix it but i wouldn’t hold your breath.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stephen
>>
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>>
>
>
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>
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> they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
>
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