Whisperfish - The unofficial SailfishOS Signal client

[sunburnedpenguin]

@rubdos

That sounds like a bug to me; the registration should give an error as long as it’s not filled in. I’ve made an issue about that. (Wow, we’re over 400 issues…)

Actually, maybe I’m just dumb since no one else seemed vexed by it!

@rubdos

I’ve had someone suggest on Matrix to use something like vi a; harbour-whisperfish --verbose --captcha "$(cat a)" , such that you can cleanly edit it in vi (replace with nano if you want) and then on close automatically start Whisperfish. Would that help?

This worked perfectly! I did substitute nano, and I had no problems, so for others who would prefer to use nano, do the following variation on @rubdos’s procedure on Gitlab:

1. Close Whisperfish on your phone, if it is already started.

2. Open https://signalcaptchas.org/registration/generate.html using the browser on your computer.

3. Open the browser console. In Firefox, you can use Control + Shift + K to open it. Click the gear icon and check “Persist Logs”.

4. Now file the captcha that is presented on the webpage.

5. When the captcha is filed, you get a warning in the console, in form of “Prevented navigation to …” or “Navigated to <captcha URL>”. Part of this warning is a very long URL, starting with signalcaptcha://. Copy the URL to your clipboard, excluding any quotation marks but including the signalcaptcha://.

6. Via an SSH session on your phone:

   • Run nano a; harbour-whisperfish --verbose --captcha "$(cat a)"
   • Paste the aforementioned captcha URL into nano.
   • Save and exit nano.
   • Complete the registration on your phone.

7. When the registration is finished, close Whisperfish, then close SSH.

Thanks again for this great app, @rubdos!!!