Addfavorite works in IE5 but not IE6

[boed]

Is there some trick to this? I use a redirect service for my url. When a client clicks on add bookmark, security settings within Windows IE6 SP1 don't allow a client to add the bookmark since it is to a url which technically is not from the same address.

Is there any way around this "SECURITY FEATURE" in IE6?


If you go to

http://www.informationtechnologysolutions.net/testmain.htm

-
and click on the CSD - it does nothing but the original SWF-

http://www.informationtechnologysolutions.net/testmain.swf

works fine. For some reason going through an html to get to my swf disables the button.

I use an http forwarding service - I do not have sufficient bandwidth for my own web sever.


The call in Flash I made was:

on (press) {
getURL
("javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('

http://home.attbi.com/~completesystemsdesign/main.swf','Complete

Systems Design')"
}

One person suggested it might have something to do with the DOM. (I know squat about java/html so I don't know what that means)



Thank you.

 

[Cadwalader]

IE 6 is evil. Stick with 5.5 for now. (I "fell ya" when it comes to this) Or, go to a strict JS redirect. Hope I was of some help...
--OR--
Thanks for the help...
--Rich

 

[boed]

Cadwalader - yeah I wish I could just stick to a browser that works but I'm hoping to design my website for other people with various browsers. For the strict JS redirect are you talking about the service provider I use for url redirect or are you talking about doing something to make my bookmark work?

 

[starway]

I'm very glad that Microsoft finally started doing something real about IE security. You think it's evil? Let me disagree.

Adding URL into favourites from another domain; automatic adding URL into favourites without user's approvement are one of those things that I really hate. And I'm not the only one.

If I see something like this, I never come back to such a site.

 

[boed]

I'm not trying to add a favorite without there permission, they have to click on a button for it to happen. In that case, I don't see why it would be a security risk.