Recaptcha returning "The reCAPTCHA server is unavailable" - captcha

I'm using ASP.NET and plugging in the google Recaptcha user control successfully, when calling the IsValid method on it, it returns in its recaptcha.ErrorMessage property: "The reCAPTCHA server is unavailable" and recaptcha.IsValid obviously returns false.
Does anyone know the reason why this could happen? Is it because I'm working on my localhost (Setup private and public keys on my localhost) and this sits on my work network? I suspect the google server that serves Recaptcha isn't down as its serving new Captcha words everytime I refresh.

Try to run the application on IIS.
It means try http://localhost instead of localhost:8888.

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Upon checking your link, I can see that the error code is 401. Regarding that error, you can check this SO thread.
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By setting up a service account in Google apis console it will
allow you to access your own data with out needing to login and
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Following the instructions in https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2InstalledApp , it turns out that this should be possible:
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In fact, The document you've read has answered you question:
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I tried this idea and it works.
Give consecutive ports or probable ports in credentials as
**Redirect URIs**
http://localhost:55738/YoutubeVideoList.aspx
http://localhost:8080/YoutubeVideoList.aspx
http://localhost:8081/YoutubeVideoList.aspx
http://localhost:8082/YoutubeVideoList.aspx
http://localhost:8083/YoutubeVideoList.aspx
http://localhost:8084/YoutubeVideoList.aspx
and don't forget to give correct redirectURI with port(anyone above) while calling the authentication process.

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In development:
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In production:
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I've learned The Hard Way to make sure these config vars are right everywhere.

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This is probably a related question, except it's in Android: How to check WiFi is pass through web page login?
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There is currently no way to detect this.
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