Safari Online Books not displaying in PWB

mdavis99 · Post by **mdavis99** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:54 pm

We use a database of tech E-books called Safari Books online.
After searching for a books I am having a problem opening the book to read in their applet that comes up. Its is some kind of Flash application that is trying to display the book.
Everything seems to work fine in IE7 but I can't get it work in any version of PWB. We are currently using the newest version of PWB.
Other Flash content seems to display fine. It's just this one we are having a problem with.
Any ideas of what may be preventing this from displaying in PWB?

Post by **Scott** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:25 pm

Try using a stock unedited INI file to see if the problem persists.

You can get a stock INI file from the PWB Upgrade download on our Download page.

--Scott

mdavis99 · Post by **mdavis99** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:34 pm

I tried it with the unedited INI file but that didn't fix it. The website were are having a problem with is at:
http://search.safaribooksonline.com/

Post by **Scott** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:43 pm

The site seems to work when searched from this URL.

http://safaribooksonline.com

We sent a message to Safari Books Online via their Contact us page. We will see if they get back to us.

--Scott

blahanson · Post by **blahanson** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:09 pm

I'm having the same problem. Safari flash content will not display when using PWB.

The Safari site loads fine, the issue is with using PWB to view book contents with flash.

I'm using the latest version of flash, PWB and a un-edited ini file. Works fine using IE 7 on the same PC (XP).

Post by **Scott** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:13 pm

The site http://search.safaribooksonline.com/ seems to have an issue with the Internet Explorer Web Browser control which PWB utilizes for all its browsing capabilities and the way in which it loads Flash files. Unfortunately we have tried contacting the Webmaster at the site several times in order to work out the problem but we have never received any replies.

You should try using Chrome Moly which does not have this issue on the site.

--Scott

Post by **Scott** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:25 pm

I know this is a bit old, but I just thought I would add closure to this thread.

Using PWB v2.11.4 and setting the following in the INI file corrects the issue with the Safari Books Online web site and PWB.

[Browser]
PreventSWFCaching=True

--Scott