From c6ab02305bd80b39d73b1b567ed92d2f14ab3f57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Fromme?= <bjoern.fromme@ep-reisen.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 12:01:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: load captcha image in Chrome on initial page load

---
 .../ep_theme/Resources/Private/Partials/Form/Captcha.html   | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Resources/Private/Partials/Form/Captcha.html b/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Resources/Private/Partials/Form/Captcha.html
index 7984a2ce..e977f467 100644
--- a/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Resources/Private/Partials/Form/Captcha.html
+++ b/public/typo3conf/ext/ep_theme/Resources/Private/Partials/Form/Captcha.html
@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
                               errorClass="form-field--has-error"
                               placeholder="Bitte die Zeichen aus der Grafik eingeben"
                               additionalAttributes="{formvh:translateElementProperty(element: element, property: 'fluidAdditionalAttributes')}"/>
-			<img src="{f:uri.page(pageType:3413)}" alt="Captcha image" loading="lazy" onload="this.parentElement.classList.remove('captcha--reloading'); return false;"/>
+			<f:comment>
+				The "now" param keeps bw_captcha 3.x from sending a Content-Length that is the base64 size of the
+				binary image (too large), which makes Chrome drop the response. Fixed upstream in bw_captcha 4.0.1.
+			</f:comment>
+			<img src="{f:uri.page(pageType:3413)}&amp;now=0" alt="Captcha image" loading="lazy" onload="this.parentElement.classList.remove('captcha--reloading'); return false;"/>
 			<f:if condition="{element.properties.showRefresh}">
 				<button type="button" 
 					class="captcha__reload"