Newsbank URLs

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Thu May 19, 2005 5:27 pm

We recently started having problems with URL errors when using Newsbank. The welcome page (http://infoweb.newsbank.com/) works just fine. When we enter one of the individual products, we receive two error messages, both our "URL not allowed" error, then the page displays without a problem. And we receive the same two errors every time we submit a search.

From looking at the coding, it looks like Newsbank is using infoweb.newsbank.com and images.newsbank.com, with many relative links. Our URL file allows newsbank.com and javascript, plus all of our other databases which are working fine. And we disallow everything else.

Any ideas? It used to work fine, and it seems to me it must be either v2 of PWB (recently installed), or a new version of the Newsbank software that's causing the problem.

Thanks!
Daniel

Post by **Scott** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:48 pm

If you are using PWB v2.07, set the following in the INI file. This will pop-up a dialog indicating what URL is being blocked. You can then add it to your URL filter file.

[Security]
...
DebugAccessString=True
...

You can also use the History file with Track URL, and Log Access to determine what URL is being blocked, although the Debug Access string is much more comprehensive.

--Scott

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:49 pm

The debug worked great! The problem was an about:blank. I added it to the allowed list in the URL file and all is working peachy. I'll pass along the info to Newsbank in case other clients of theirs are using PWB.

Thanks!
Daniel