addthis.com causing me headaches

wl0ifr · Post by **wl0ifr** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:57 am

hi,

we've recently updated our webpages and added "addthis.com" to the footer.

since this PWB is saying that the site is trying to load unauthorised content, I've commented out addthis.com's bit in the html and PWB is fine, so its defo addthis.com

an example can be found here
http://library.sunderland.ac.uk
(i've removed it from our sites that PWB is actually used for due to the above problem, an example is http://ndtalis.sunderland.ac.uk:8080/ta ... /index.jsp)

is there away to allow addthis.com to load without causing unauthorised site messages, and ideally still block the sites it references, no way do I want to allow our users to facebook.com

Thanks in advanced.
Ian

Post by **Scott** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:10 pm

Are you using the PWB URL filter? You probably need to add "addthis.com" to the filter to allow access to it.

--Scott

wl0ifr · Post by **wl0ifr** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:55 pm

Hi Scott,

Yes I am using the URL filter, and I tried adding addthis.com to it but it made no difference.

Post by **Scott** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:27 pm

Enable the history file with tracking and note what the filter is blocking.

[Security]
WriteHistoryFile=True
TrackURL=True
LogAccess=True

More information:
http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/ph ... .php?t=195

Then add the blocked URLs to the URL filter file.

Here is a history file from one of our test computers.

TSSWKS01 9/14/2010 8:22:43 PM <t> http://library.sunderland.ac.uk/
TSSWKS01 9/14/2010 8:22:46 PM <t> about:blank
TSSWKS01 9/14/2010 8:22:46 PM <t> http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.ph ... font=arial&
TSSWKS01 9/14/2010 8:22:46 PM <t> http://s7.addthis.com/static/r07/sh23.html#cb=0&ab=pz-3&dh=library.sunderland.ac.uk&dr=&du=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary.sunderland.ac.uk%2F&dt=University%20Library%20Services&inst=1&lng=en-us&pc=tbx&pub=uniofsunderland&ssl=0&sid=4c901fe6720ed2f3&srd=1&srf=0.02&srp=0.2&srx=0&ver=250&xck=0&rev=80995&xd=1

Adding the following should allow addthis.com.

+addthis.com

--Scott

wl0ifr · Post by **wl0ifr** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:50 am

Hi Scott,

Sorry for the delayed response been busy due to start of term, it turned out that it was neither addthis.com or facebook.com but "about:blank" that was being blocked.

I created the history file as suggested, added both addthis.com and facebook.com and the problem persisted, so i added about:blank and hey presto no error.

i have since removed addthis.com and facebook.com and still no error (as sunderland.ac.uk is allowed and is present in the lines of code)

once again thanks for you help.