AirDroid vs NoScript

[Puzzled Once Again]

Another NoScript problem, one that is well beyond my (lack of) comprehension:

AirDroid is an Android app that allows the user to transfer files, etc., without using a USB cable. To do this from a PC, you log on to http://web.airdroid.com, but NoScript does not allow this. I had to disable NoS in order to get the web page to load.

I tried to enter the URL in to the NoS Whitelist (sic), but as soon as I added the .com, NoS, not surprisingly, rejected the entry, and http://web.airdroid does not allow the page to work with NoS enabled.

(On the phone, AirDroid also offers http://192.168.1.1111.8888 as a long-on address, but that comes back in Firefox as an unknown location.)

Is there a method of getting the web.airdroid.com address to work with NoS?

[Thrawn]

Sounds like you are running into ABE. Is there anything in the Messages tab of the Error Console (Ctrl+Shift+J) when this happens?

[Puzzled Once Again]

I don't know what an "ABE" is, and hope I did not damage it if I did run into it.....

Yes, there is definitely an entry in the Messages tab of the Error Console:

[NoScript]Blocking cross-site Javascript served from http://d3kw9cbwoqg2ak.cloudfront.net/13 ... 050468775= with wrong type info application/octet-stream and included by http://web.airdroid.com/

I don't understand much of that, but given that there are 133,062 reviews of AirDroid at Goggle play, mainly rating the app at four or five, it does not appear to me that it is inherently dangerous. The URL loads for me in IE 9 when using the IE Tab 2 extension Cloudfront.net is an Amazon tracking/etc. site, according to my very brief Google search thereof, and is likely used by AirDroid as part of its data-transfer mechanism, according to my totally non-scientific guess.

[Thrawn]

I don't know what an "ABE" is, and hope I did not damage it if I did run into it.....

Yes, there is definitely an entry in the Messages tab of the Error Console:

[NoScript]Blocking cross-site Javascript served from http://d3kw9cbwoqg2ak.cloudfront.net/13 ... 050468775= with wrong type info application/octet-stream and included by http://web.airdroid.com/

I don't understand much of that, but given that there are 133,062 reviews of AirDroid at Goggle play, mainly rating the app at four or five, it does not appear to me that it is inherently dangerous. The URL loads for me in IE 9 when using the IE Tab 2 extension Cloudfront.net is an Amazon tracking/etc. site, according to my very brief Google search thereof, and is likely used by AirDroid as part of its data-transfer mechanism, according to my totally non-scientific guess.

Ah. Thanks for posting the Error Console message.

It appears that web.airdroid.com is misusing cloudfront. Or else there's something broken about how cloudfront is working. Anyway, you'll need to tell NoScript to ignore this bad behavior:

• Open a new tab.
• In the address bar, type about:config (all one word).
• In the Search bar, type noscript.inclusionTypeChecking.exceptions
• Double-click on the single search result that should appear below, and add http://d3kw9cbwoqg2ak.cloudfront.net to the line of text (separating it from the other text with a space).
• Let us know if it works!

[Puzzled Once Again]

As soon as I read your reply, I got a phone call from NAS, asking me why I am getting foreign code sent to my computer; I told that that, yes, it sure looks foreign to me, too.....

Thank You! That is certainly not something that I would ever have figured out myself. The only part is knew was about:config, which I happened to use yesterday, when I realized that I'd not set an entry for a new Firefox profile I'd created for my wife's computer recently, and needed to check that setting on my computer. The entry there for NoScript is not something I was aware of, would have never looked for, and even if I had, would have had no idea what it does nor how to solve my little problem.

Now, if I give the AirDroid temporary NoS permission, it loads, so, again, THANK YOU!

[Thrawn]

You're welcome. Similar errors have cropped up at other sites from time to time.

[Jim_Gunn]

Thrawn, I found this thread on Google and signed up for this forum just to thank you for that easy solution to fix that same error I was also having using AirDroid to access my Android smartphone with NoScript enabled in Firefox 23.0.1. Problem solved! I'm a die hard Firefox man and I have all kinds of customizations and plug ins set up on my install so that was very helpful indeed.

[Thrawn]

@Jim: Glad to hear it helped .