[RESOLVED/UNRELATED] Mafia Wars not responding with NS

[GµårÐïåñ]

I was asked by a friend to look into a functionality issue he was experiencing, given my relationship with the software here at the site and I was surprised to find out that he was actually not doing anything wrong and indeed it wasn't working properly. So I was hoping we could discuss it and find out what's going on and if there is anything necessary to make it work.

1. If you go to this link: http://www.mafiawars.com/fbconnect/index/zy_link/711

you are greeted with a large image that instructs you to click on it to begin playing (seen here)


2. mafiawars.com and facebook.com are both allowed in NoScript

when you click on the image/link it simply changes the location address to http://www.mafiawars.com/fbconnect/index/zy_link/711#
but nothing happens. Any idea what's going on?

Other considerations:

A. Instructing NoScript to allow scripts globally does not resolve the issue (this was replicated in a clean profiles + NS as well)
B. Disabling NoScript makes it work just fine and without issues (this was confirmed with a clean profile and no NS as well)

Information:

NS Version: 1.9.9.81
Fx Version: 3.6.3

[Giorgio Maone]

Are you blocking Facebook inclusions in ABE with a rule like this one?

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Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Accept from SELF++
Accept from .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Deny INCLUSION

If you do, please you need to add .mafiawars.com to the from clause, like this:

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Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Accept from SELF++
Accept from .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .mafiawars.com
Deny INCLUSION

[al_9x]

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Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Accept from SELF++
Accept from .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Deny INCLUSION

For this rule is SELF++ not a subset of (.facebook.com .fbcdn.net)? What is the reason for including it?

[GµårÐïåñ]

Are you blocking Facebook inclusions in ABE with a rule like this one?

No sir we are not and I am sorry for not including that information, I didn't think of it at that time. The only ABE rule in effect is the generic one that is included with all packages. Nothing extra has been added to this profile or the clean one that was used.

However, what you said made me look at something else and it turns out it was being blocked by an external tool that both of us happened to have installed on our machine and I didn't consider in this. It blocks http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com and therefore crippling the access. Once I allowed an exemption (surprisingly based on the ABE reference you mentioned) it allowed it to work (of course it was blocked by my RequestPolicy - but once allowed it worked)

thank you for taking the time to look into it. I will mark this as resolved/unrelated.

[Giorgio Maone]

For this rule is SELF++ not a subset of (.facebook.com .fbcdn.net)? What is the reason for including it?

Yes it is, in fact has been removed from the "official" sample on the ABE page.