yes, recaptcha URLs are changed and 1.95.1 doesn't have the fix but they are in trunk http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/tools.py
or you can change the URL by yourself, new ones are API_SSL_SERVER = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api' API_SERVER = 'http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api' VERIFY_SERVER = 'http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/verify'