AjaxLife status and updates
I’ve worked out why I can’t use AjaxLife at school.
You have attempted to access the following web page:
http://static.ajaxlife.net/AjaxLife.Libs.IE6.js
Access has been blocked because:
Page content filters applied – score = 7576
Since this file contains only prototype.js, scriptaculous and ExtJS, I haven’t a clue why it’s been blocked. It is annoying, however.
Possibly it may be caused by the fact the words are included in a script.
example ‘sex’ in variable name ‘responseXML’…
How about using TOR to bypass the proxy filtering?
If you have a newish cell phone or PDA, try the in-phone browser 
Can’t use TOR – no program execution allowed (or, for that matter, possible).
I have an iPhone, but that is currently incapable of running AjaxLife (close, but no mouse drag events = fail)
Hmmm…Did you kill the site? Internet isn’t seeing it today.
Not intentionally. I might have broken something, but since I haven’t touched anything, it’d be odd. I’ll check when I get home.
Any reason why ajaxlife.net now redirects to a ip address that doesn’t match ajaxlife.net ip address?
Yes – see this post about moving to use EC2 and S3 instead of the server at ajaxlife.net. This was done for (and has resulted in) increased performance and stability (and flexibility too).
Ah, coolies. I tend to miss these things you see 
I’m quite sure things will be worked out!
I have an iPhone as well. I’m eager to see the iPhone client’s completion, and am willing to do any multi-user/iPhone tests with you. Just send me a message.
How about making tabbed features, like Google’s iPhone page (google.com/m)? The map, inventory, and other buttons could be tabbed images. Not sure if there’s enough memory though…
http://protoculous.wikeo.be/
Protoculous is a javascript file which contains Prototype and Scriptaculous together compressed.
AjaxLife.Libs.js contains Prototype, Scriptaculous and ExtJS together compressed.
Only problem is that it gets blocked by over-excited content filters.
Why do I have a feeling that your school’s server is Novell based, and they *may* use NetSweeper. If they do, I have yet to get around that. NetSweeper seems to be good at blocking everything you can use to get past it, sure they may work, but within an hour there blocked.
/me aims nuke at school board server room.
Now to hope my school doesn’t block the VPN server I set up. There’s NO rule that says I can’t use my own VPN server to get past the content filter.
Actually, my school’s 32 servers run Windows Server 2003.
And they don’t use netsweeper, they use a heavily customised version of bloxx. Which we know because it sometimes (rarely) glitches and shows the login screen instead of a blocked page.
I want to say …
Obfuscated script can be unblocked by filter or not.
Or Is the problem that the script load from defferent url?
Obfuscation won’t help – search for “sex” in http://static.ajaxlife.net/AjaxLife.Libs.js
Windows Script Encoder may be usable if I use it only in IE.
However, a letter called “sex” has come out in another form when I converted AjaxLife.LIbs.js with it.
If I really wanted to solve the problem, I could split the file up – having protaculous.js and ext-all.js (which was the previous setup) caused no issue.
Wow, your school has the money to run Server 2003. (Which I run on my own servers, I ran Novell at one time and nearly went mad.) It’s amazing what you can’t do on my school’s computers.
-No right clicking.
-No running exes, bats, msis etc.
-No access to the settings in IE.
-No running portable apps.
-No desktop (we get to use the Novell client)
-You can’t open a file by using Windows Explorer, NO you have to open the program you use to open it and open it from there.
-Software that’s out of date and won’t read the newer files from my copies at home. (Inventor, SoftImage|XSI, etc.)
-Blocks any page with the word, “game, sex, proxy, etc.”
One a side note at my elementary school the IT guy decided it was wise to leave the server logged in and the door to the room unlocked. Took them 8 weeks to get the servers running right again. It was the school board’s idea not to make backups of the user database, not mine.
Also go to http://www.netauthority.org and search for “WCDSB” and see what comes up. That was a fun joke, since on of the teachers had started whining at anyone who went on a site on that list, so my friends and I submitted the school’s site and the boards.
And my school seems to have trouble making pages that display right in Firefox.
We can’t execute our own stuff or access any of the config, but stuff that’s not prohibited by the rules you agree to on logging on generally works.
Although the substring “sex” apparently appears a sufficiently large number of times in my code to block it, so the system is clearly flawed.
It may be a little like WebMarshal which has a huge list of words it blocks, including the words spelled different ways, such as leet, just bad typing, and context filters. It’s evil, which is why my brothers internet access is filtered by it and mine isn’t.
And with any luck my JIRA database will still be in one piece after I get my new server running.
Eh. The point is moot now – I have access to the Wi-Fi in the “special projects room” (i.e. room for sixth forum Computing students plus me, in which little of use ever gets done). This is seemingly unfiltered, and even lets me run SL on my laptop if I want.
Lucky you. My school doesn’t have Wi-Fi and the you can’t get so much as a cell phone signal inside the place. But since my school hasn’t blocked Rapid Share I can use their connection to upload and download.
(60mbps down, 50mbps up) However if what I’ve heard is true there’s still the cabling for the old network in place, which just run though a router, no server. I think it may be true since the art rooms used to be computer labs and people have been able to use their laptops with the connection in those rooms.
And since I forgot, is it possible to run PHP on a windows based server?
Yes. It just inherits various odd platform-related quirks, and loses certain advanced UNIX-only features.
Just don’t try running it under IIS. It works – badly.
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