RE: WWW2006 Life Science mashup demo now accessible

Hi Don,

I've updated the demo web page with information on this error. To try out 
the demo, you need to allow my web site (thefigtrees.net) the privilege to 
read data on other web sites (in this case, sparql.org). To do this, 
follow these instructions:

"""
Failed to get privilege ?UniversalBrowserRead to open ...

    * Firefox security won't in general let a script from a given DNS 
domain (like www.thefigtrees.net) read web data from a different domain. 
To change this,
         1. Type into the main browser URI bar "about:config" and hit 
return to get to the config page.
         2. Scroll down to the line which says 
signed.applets.codebase_principal_support ... user set ... boolean .. 
false and double-click it to change it to 'true'.
         3. Go back to the web page, and try again. When the browser asks 
you whether to allow the script to access arbitrary web pages, agree. You 
probably want to check the "remember the answer this question" box.

      Note that this is reducing the security of your browser. You end up 
allowing any web page on the site to read data from the web, which could 
include data from inside your firewall.
"""

These instructions are copied from 
http://esw.w3.org/topic/SparqlCalendarDemoUsage . Note that you are not 
granting this privilege for all websites -- the configuration change 
simply makes Firefox prompt you when a website requests the privilege 
(rather than denying it out of hand).

In any case, I'd love it if you tried these steps and then gave the demo 
another shot. 

thanks,
Lee
-- 
Lee Feigenbaum
IBM Software Engineer, Internet Technology Team
feigenbl@us.ibm.com
1-617-693-3765

public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org wrote on 08/17/2006 10:09:58 AM:

> Sean,
> 
> I’m getting an error when I enter p53 and click on the Find Proteins
> button. It says “Failed to get privilege UniversalBrowserRead to open 
> http://sparql.org/sparql, A script from http://thefigtrees.net was 
> denied UniversalBrowserRead privileges.”
> 
> I’m using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.
> 
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-
> lifesci-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sean Martin
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:06 AM
> To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> Subject: WWW2006 Life Science mashup demo now accessible
> 
> 
> Lee Feigenbaum from my group at IBM has posted a SPARQL Life 
> Sciences mashup demo that he first showed at WWW2006 in Edinburgh. 
> Note that it is a demo only and that it probably works best with 
> FireFox. In my opinion it starts to offer strong evidence that Web 
> 2.0 style visual data integration can be significantly eased & 
> enhanced by Semantic Web standards and technologies. This belief 
> drives much of our current work here. Thanks for putting this out there 
Lee! 
> 
> 
http://www.thefigtrees.net/lee/blog/2006/08/life_sciences_on_the_web_with.html

> 
> Kindest regards, Sean 
> 
> -- 
> Sean Martin 
> IBM Corp

Received on Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:36:21 UTC