JavaScript Radar Loops at NOAA

[Jahzoone]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting the radar loops to work at http://www.noaa.gov. I have allowed noaa.gov, weather.gov and radar.weather.gov to the whiteList. I think the problem is that the images are coming from another url because it says I need to enable javaScript to use the page. I haven't been able to figure out how or what to enable. Here's a link to the page: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid= ... 11&loop=no . I can see the static radar fine, it's only when I click on the "loop" links that it doesn't work.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[therube]

What do you mean by "Radar Loops"?
The "Radar" box checked, & the "blue" spots displaying?

If so, all I did was to Allow weather.gov - nothing more.

[Jahzoone]

I should have been more clear, the problem is with the Loops. If you look to the left side of the page there is a menu where you can select "Loop" it loads another page that plays back the last 5 or so radar updates.

[therube]

(Needs Java, so can't help further on that.)

[Jahzoone]

Yeah, I don't get it either? It worked fine before I installed NoScript. There must be a setting or way to allow it to work, perhaps someone else has an idea of what I can do?

[Alan Baxter]

I should have been more clear, the problem is with the Loops. If you look to the left side of the page there is a menu where you can select "Loop" it loads another page that plays back the last 5 or so radar updates.

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid= ... 11&loop=no works for me in a test profile with no other extensions. Looping quite nicely with only weather.gov allowed. It worked for all of the Loop links I tried in the left side panel, including Short Range Images > Reflectivity: Base

My firewall asked me a couple of times if I wanted to allow java.exe to connect to the radar sites.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
NoScript 1.9.8.89 with default settings except weather.gov allowed
Default theme, no other extensions

If you haven't already, install the most current version of NoScript, version 1.9.8.89, from http://noscript.net/getit#devel. Reset your NoScript options to the defaults with the Reset button at the bottom of the Options dialog. Caution: this will replace any sites you've whitelisted already with the defaults. Export them with the Export button in the Whitelist panel if you want to restore them later.

Edit: It also works in Fx 3.0.14

[Jahzoone]

OK, I found the trouble. I started using NoScript at the same time that I abandoned IE for FireFox ( On the sound advice of Steve Gibson [Security Now! Podcast] ). I forgot to go to the Control Panel > Java > Settings and tick the box for Mozilla. I made the change and checked out the "loops" and everything is working fine. Thanks to everyone who responded to my post, it was your help that lead me to the fix!

[Alan Baxter]

Super! Thank you for letting us know.