Which filter is preventing voting?

[Qwerky]

Hi Guys,

Recently installed Proxomitron 4.5j with default configuration, on XP SP2. Using Firefox 1.5.0.4.

With Proxomitron enabled, I am no longer able to vote on sites such as imdb.com and amazon.com. Go to imdb.com and look at a movie's page. Near the bottom of the page is a user comment, and a link to see other user commnets. Click that link. Now you have a page full of user comments, and at the bottom of each comment is a line with Yes and No boxes where you can vote on the commnet. Same thing on amazon.com. With Proxomitron enabled, clicking on either box does nothing. Disable Proxomitron and refresh page; now clicking a box does what it's supposed to.

This is completely foreign stuff to me. Would someone please tell me which filter is doing this. And is there a way to modify the filter to allow the vote action even with the filter enabled, either for a specific site or for all sites?

ADVthanksANCE
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[Siamesecat]

On IMDB, that voting does something for me. Since I am not registered there, it takes me to a page which encourages me to register.
You could try using the log window to get a debug view of that page and see which filter affects the part of the code that gets the response to the voting input.

[Qwerky]

Hi Si, thanks for the reply!

Okay, not that I understand it, but here is what occurred in the log window when I clicked on a Yes box with Proxomitron enabled:

+++GET 2186+++
GET /title/tt0099810/usercomments-vote?yni_998138=yes HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.imdb.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Accept: image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Referer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/user...998138=yes
Cookie: id=
Connection: keep-alive

+++RESP 2186+++
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:18:28 GMT
Server: Apache
nnCoection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: image/gif
+++CLOSE 2186+++

The cookie was miles of gibberish, so I cut it out to save space.

Then I bypassed Proxomitron. Clicking the Yes box then did nothing, I had to first refresh the page. After that, I clicked the Yes box again, and this was logged:

+++GET 2277+++
GET /title/tt0099810/usercomments-vote?yni_998138=yes HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.imdb.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Accept: image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Referer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/user...ale-female
Cookie: id=
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Connection: keep-alive
Browser reload detected...

+++RESP 2277+++
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:26:24 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: private
nnCoection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: image/gif
+++CLOSE 2277+++

Does that tell anything? Thanks.
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[Qwerky]

Okay, looking at the log window with Proxomitron enabled, there's a huge number of matches. By trial and error (disableing them in turn), I found out it's Onload Unloader that's doing it.

Onload Unloader, when enabled, doesn't seem to be causing any undesirable results on that site. So, can that filter be modified to not act upon a given list of sites? Thanks.

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[JJoe]

Qwerky Wrote:So, can that filter be modified to not act upon a given list of sites?

Sure. See
"URL Match - a different kind of scope control"
at
http://www.proxomitron.info/45/help/Web%...ditor.html

Code:

[Patterns]
Name = "Onload unloader mod June 11, 2006"
Active = TRUE
URL = "(^www.imdb.com/title/)"
Limit = 20
Match = "onload="
Replace = "LoadOff="

Add pages like

Code:

URL = "(^www.imdb.com/title/|another.com)"

OR

Code:

[Patterns]
Name = "Onload unloader mod June 11, 2006"
Active = TRUE
URL = "(^$LST(AllowOnload))"
Limit = 20
Match = "onload="
Replace = "LoadOff="

HTH

[Qwerky]

Hi JJoe,

Thanks muchly for that code (it works perfectly), and the pointer to using a list file. If my site list grows, I'll now know how to put it in a blocklist file!

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[Siamesecat]

I found that onload sometimes does something useful, so I just block its ability to put ads in the way, like this:

Quote:[Patterns]
Name = "Onload Ad unloader"
Active = TRUE
Limit = 60
Match = "onload=\2(null|popup|initbox|initAd|openSidebar)"
Replace = "onload=\2null"

[Qwerky]

Hi Si,

Thanks for the code. I tried that filter as replacement for Onload Unloader, and it does allow the desired voting action. I don't know what it blocks, though, so now I'm gonna hafta do some studying.

P.S. I notice that every time I type 'Onload' with a capital 'O', it is replaced in my posts by a lower-case 'o'. Is it some kind of a reserved word on this site?

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[Siamesecat]

Qwerky,
What the onload ad unloader blocks is popups, popunders, and those floating ads that drift around over the browser window.