OT: Javascript Permission Denied

[Jon Spivey]

Hi,

Wasn't sure where to post this so thought I'd start here. Just had an email
from a visitor to one of my sites complaining that he found me on Yahoo Hong
Kong, clicked the link and got javascript Permission Denied errors - as the
page relies on javascript to function this is a shwostopper. The search he
ran is this
http://search.hk.yahoo.com/yc/hk?u=B&p='revise+as+&+a2+biology"
My site (bookhead.co.uk) comes in at number one, click the link and a
permission denied error comes up. The 2 tables on the page (Retailers and
Used Retailers) use javascript to pull in price data, so the error renders
the page useless - click any other link on the page to see what should
happen. Just checked my logs for the past couple of weeks and it looks like
all my traffic from Yahoo Hong Kong has failed with the same error, I just
didn't know about it until now. Fortunately traffic from other Yahoo sites,
or any other search engine for that matter, is not effected by this

Can't find anything on Google about this and tried messing with security
settings in IE, viewing the page in Firefox doesn't give any errors so I
assume it's something in XP SP2 Hopefully someone has some ideas on this.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

By default, active content is disabled in the ie options and I believe the
local machines options in SP2
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| Hi,
|
| Wasn't sure where to post this so thought I'd start here. Just had an
email
| from a visitor to one of my sites complaining that he found me on Yahoo
Hong
| Kong, clicked the link and got javascript Permission Denied errors - as
the
| page relies on javascript to function this is a shwostopper. The search he
| ran is this
| http://search.hk.yahoo.com/yc/hk?u=B&p='revise+as+&+a2+biology"
| My site (bookhead.co.uk) comes in at number one, click the link and a
| permission denied error comes up. The 2 tables on the page (Retailers and
| Used Retailers) use javascript to pull in price data, so the error renders
| the page useless - click any other link on the page to see what should
| happen. Just checked my logs for the past couple of weeks and it looks
like
| all my traffic from Yahoo Hong Kong has failed with the same error, I just
| didn't know about it until now. Fortunately traffic from other Yahoo
sites,
| or any other search engine for that matter, is not effected by this
|
| Can't find anything on Google about this and tried messing with security
| settings in IE, viewing the page in Firefox doesn't give any errors so I
| assume it's something in XP SP2 Hopefully someone has some ideas on this.
|
| --
| Cheers,
| Jon
| Microsoft MVP
|
|

 

[Jon Spivey]

Hi Tom,
Can you explain that? Every page on the site works perfectly for every other
referer except Yahoo Hong Kong - as far as I can see it's something to do
with the fact that they use some kind of redirect when you click a link
rather than just taking you right to the page. How could calling a page by a
redirect give a permission denied error while clicking a direct link to the
page doesn't? The direct link to the page is
http://www.bookhead.co.uk/ShowBook.aspx?isbn=1843152991
it works, it only fails when accessed from Yahoo HK

Cheers,
Jon