Hewlett-Packard web site broken with NoScript

[johndoe445566]

Problem:

http://www.hp.com recently stopped working when NoScript is enabled. The header and footer areas are displayed, but there's nothing in the center of the page, and many of the hyperlinks don't work. I have all the domains used by the HP site whitelisted (hp.com, hp-www.com, and blueaku.com). Selecting "Allow Scripts Globally" doesn't help. The only thing that works is disabling the NoScript extension.

Environment:

Windows 7 X64
Firefox 13.0.1
NoScript 2.4.7rc3
(All other Firefox extensions disabled)

[Thrawn]

When I load that page, I see:

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[NoScript] Blocking cross-site Javascript served from http://welcome.hp-ww.com/country/us/en/cs/scripts/jsFiles.jsp_compURI_1237145_amp_inline_images_yes with wrong type info application/octet-stream and included by http://www.hp.com/

Looks like they have a poorly-designed site, including a JavaScript file that for some reason has a different MIME type. If you want to work around it, see http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... 71&p=38788 (not exactly the same situation, but the workaround is the same). Probably pretty safe to work around it in this case, since 'welcome.hp-ww.com' is owned by Hewlett-Packard. If you're keen, though, you could contact them and ask them why they're sending the wrong MIME type for their JavaScript file(s).

[johndoe445566]

Looks like they have a poorly-designed site, including a JavaScript file that for some reason has a different MIME type. If you want to work around it, see http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... 71&p=38788 (not exactly the same situation, but the workaround is the same). Probably pretty safe to work around it in this case, since 'welcome.hp-ww.com' is owned by Hewlett-Packard.

Thank you! The workaround works.

If you're keen, though, you could contact them and ask them why they're sending the wrong MIME type for their JavaScript file(s).

I'll contact some people I know who still work there.

[therube]

> Looks like they have a poorly-designed site, including a JavaScript file that for some reason has a different MIME type.

Now that sucks.
And I believe it to be a fairly recent change on their end, & one that will catch a lot of NoScript users.

Oh, & the noscript.inclusionTypeChecking.exceptions needed is http://welcome.hp-ww.com/ (that I've since removed on my end).