Re: Who you gonna call? Google Civic Information client & website

This isn't working (for me). I've tried several addresses in Maryland and Virginia and never get any data.

I wouldn't mind so much if it would give me some kind of message explaining why it couldn't fulfill my request, but it's not doing that either.

Also, the "Contact" button in the upper right corner throws a 500.

fwiw, I'm using Mozilla Firefox 85.0 64-bit on Windows 10.

Update: It worked when I tried it in IE. :-(

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Re^2: Who you gonna call? Google Civic Information client & website by 1nickt (Canon) on Feb 08, 2021 at 19:51 UTC
Thanks for the report. I develop in Firefox so it's surprising to hear this. I'll get right on some debugging. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^3: Who you gonna call? Google Civic Information client & website by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Feb 08, 2021 at 20:17 UTC
I use Firefox and had no trouble with my historic zips and tried a few random MA and VA zips too; including a Private window.	[reply]
Re^4: Who you gonna call? Google Civic Information client & website by 1nickt (Canon) on Feb 08, 2021 at 21:36 UTC
Thanks. I suspect it has to do with Javascript, jdporter did not say whether he got a response or just could not submit the form. The form button has a JS handler (for reCAPTCHA) which I am going to remove. I don;t care about bogus queries; I care about flooding, which a recaptcha wouldn't prevent at all. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^2: Who you gonna call? Google Civic Information client & website by 1nickt (Canon) on Feb 08, 2021 at 21:54 UTC
Thanks again for the report. I fixed the error with the contact form, derp. I'm curious about what your "experience" was when you submitted the main search form. Did it show a table with a no data message? In the meantime I've removed the reCAPTCHA that was on the form and made the submit button a normal HTML button, so it should return some content at least if the browser doesn't have JS. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^3: Who you gonna call? Google Civic Information client & website by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 09, 2021 at 20:35 UTC
when you submitted the main search form. Did it show a table with a no data message? Yes, I get the `<table id="officials"` table with just its header row. I also get the footer, and it looks oddly smashed into the header row of the preceding table, though I suspect that's just a visual artifact of the styling. I do not have js disabled, but I do have a few blockers running, so it's probably one of them. Don't spend too much time on it. ;-)	[reply] [d/l]