[Web4lib] RE: Permissions problem with Flash 10 sites

[Thomas Edelblute]

For those who are interested, we figured out what was going on with the help of the Wireshark packet analyzer.  Our Children's lab settings on the proxy server does not allow uncategorized sites to go through.  Once we added akamai.net to the allowed sites, everything started working.  It looks like we were unknowingly blocking this hosting site causing all the flash buttons not to respond.

Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library

From: Thomas Edelblute
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:33 PM
To: 'Web4Lib (web4lib at webjunction.org)'; 'syslib-l at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU'
Subject: Permissions problem with Flash 10 sites

We are growing increasingly frustrated by the number of web sites (i.e. Disney.com, nickjr.com, vmath.com) that will not run under user logins in our Children's computer lab.  Flash 10 runs fine under administrator logins, but under user logins, they either give a blank blue screen or ask for flash to be installed (which already is installed).  I have complained to the web masters of these sites and to Adobe, but so far no results.

If any of you have encountered this problem, how do you get Flash 10 to run without granting the user administrator rights?

Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library


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