Why did this stop working? about:<html>Hello</html>

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Joseph Geretz

We use the 'about:<html>...</html>' syntax to output short messages via an
embedded browser in our application. All of a sudden, under WinXP SP2 this
has simply stopped working. And when I try this in a browser from my
desktop, I get 'Action Cancelled'. Anyone know anything about this? Have we
just been MicroShafted? Is there some browser or OS setting which can be
tweaked to allow this to continue to work?

Thanks for your help!

- Joe Geretz -
 
Joseph Geretz said:
We use the 'about:<html>...</html>' syntax to output short messages via an
embedded browser in our application. All of a sudden, under WinXP SP2 this
has simply stopped working. And when I try this in a browser from my
desktop, I get 'Action Cancelled'. Anyone know anything about this? Have we
just been MicroShafted? Is there some browser or OS setting which can be
tweaked to allow this to continue to work?
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It's a security risk.. same reason you can't specify a username/password in
an URL.

I'd check the Microsoft support site, but I doubt there will be an easy fix,
if any.
 
Grahammer said:
It's a security risk.. same reason you can't specify a username/password in
an URL.

I'd check the Microsoft support site, but I doubt there will be an easy fix,
if any.
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After all, XP ain't done 'till VB6 won't run.
 
Unbelievable. I converted my code to use wbBrowser.Document.Body.InnerHTML
so I have a fix for this. But this is absolutely ridiculous. Over the past
few months, Microsoft has been yanking out every feature they put into the
browser over the past 5 years! All of these features have been abused and
have to be eliminated. What a fiasco! We'll be back to character based DOS
by the time we get up to SP6!

- Joe Geretz -
 
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