[LON-CAPA-users] Access denied

[James Sullivan]

GERD, YOU ARE THE BEST LONCAPA GURU!

Thank you, thank you, thank you

I was freaking out 'cause this was part of an open assignment and I hadn't
seen the issue until just now. Your suggestion seems to have fixed the
issue.

JMS

James M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor
jmsullivan@vcu.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org 
> [mailto:lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of 
> Gerd Kortemeyer
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:35 AM
> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Access denied
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:23 AM, James Sullivan wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm getting an "access denied" error when working on one of my 
> > resources in a student role.
> >
> > The situation is as follows. There is a hyperlink on the 
> problem page 
> > that uses javascript to popup a web page (published in 
> loncapa). If I 
> > click the hyperlink as a student I get:
> >
> > Access  : Browse resources
> > Resource: /res/vcu/jmsullivan/physics/freebodydiagram/fbd.htm
> > Action  : Access Denied
> >
> > Followed by a listing of my various roles. As CC or Author I do not 
> > get this error message. Anyone have suggestions for what may be the 
> > problem?
> > I've
> > tried publishing the web page both as public and domain 
> only. If I put 
> > the web page on an external site, the hyperlink performs as 
> expected.
> 
> I am surprised that the page would not work when published "public".
> 
> The other thing can be explained: LON-CAPA would not find 
> hyperlinks that are embedded in JavaScript, so you need to 
> explicitly allow access to that pop-up page.
> 
> On the page that has the JavaScript, add the line
> 
> <allow src="/res/vcu/[YOUR FILE]" />
> 
> for example
> 
> <allow src="/res/vcu/foo/bar.html" />
> 
> Republish that page. That should do the trick.
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
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