Hello
Yesterday, during a demo of QTVR content on a website, I experienced the
problem described by Jimmy/Ponyboy below. I can confirm that it's a major
problem during a demonstration. Not to mention the unknown number of website
viewers that it's driving away. Have others encountered this problem? Might
you be losing viewers of your online QTVR content without knowing about it?
Your solution below is helpful, Ponyboy. But, as you noted, it's also
impractical for most viewers. Can anyone offer an update on this problem? Is
there another solution that doesn't require viewer input? If the best
solution is as simple as Apple updating a Verisign certificate, who/what is
the appropriate Apple contact for requesting that they take care of this?
Thanks
Tom
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 00:52:08 -0700
> Subject: QuickTime Unsafe ActiveX?
> From: Jimmy McGue <email@hidden>
> To: QTVR List <email@hidden>, LiveStage List
> <email@hidden>
>
> All,
>
> I9d notice this a week or two ago, and had two different people e-mail me
> today about it.
>
> For Windows users that do not have QuickTime installed on their computer,
> they get this warning message when they visit a web page with QuickTime:
>
> "This page provides potentially unsafe information to an ActiveX control.
> Your current security settings prohibit running controls in this manner. As
> a result, this page may not display correctly."
>
> And of course, they do not get the QuickTime content.
>
> I examined the certificate information provided by VeriSign, and noticed
> that it's marked valid from 12/17/2001 to 12/26/2002, so it looks to me that
> Apple hasn't updated the certificate. Did they lay that person off too? This
> has probably been broke since December 27th, over 3 months. I've only
> recently been made aware of it, and thought it isolated until today.
>
> Can other with Windows machines confirm this? Completely uninstall QuickTime
> and then go visit any of your pages with QuickTime content.
>
> To get QuickTime to work, I had to go into the "Internet Options" control
> panel, choose the "Security" tab, and for the "Internet" zone, set the
> custom level and set "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as
> safe" to "Enabled" (or at least "Prompt"). I doubt the average Windows user
> will do this.
>
> Also, did Apple recently change or update the QuickTime ActiveX
> (http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab)? I curled it and noticed that
> it redirects (http://qtinstall.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab which again
> redirect to
> http://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52/20020920/qtinstall.info.apple.com/qtacti
> vex/qtplugin.cab). I think an HTTP response 302 is acceptable for an
> <OBJECT> CODEBASE attribute, right?
>
> Ponyboy
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