We never figured out why Javascript is disabled on some OS X webkit instances. Found it in Yellowstone and Mavericks.
Daniel Jalkut, MarsEdit lead dev, fixed bug by explicitly enabling javascript in code that does Google OAUTH 2 authentication. j On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 2:49:29 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > It looks like my Mavericks WebKit Javascript really _is_disabled. > > Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.78.2 > (KHTML, like Gecko) > > > We can't tell why it's disable or how to enable it. > > On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 8:21:43 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I should add that some of the processing is occurring correctly. >> >> If I use an account with two step authentication I get requests for >> verification code and option of alternative methods. So the OAUTH 2 >> transaction error may be occurring after authentication. Some javascript >> call is failing? >> >> On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 8:16:15 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> MarsEdit is a well regarded OS X blog authoring app. It used to support >>> Blogger but the sole dev missed deprecation of ClientLogin. He's now >>> switched to OAUTH. >>> >>> >>> His implementation works for most people, and it works on my machines >>> (Mavericks and Yosemite). Works, that is, except for my primary user >>> account (Mavericks) where, on authentication attempt against the embedded >>> Google authentication app, I get: >>> >>> >>> You've reached this page because we have detected that Javascript is >>>> disabled in your browser. The page you attempted to load cannot display >>>> properly if scripts are disabled. >>>> Please enable scripts and retry the operation or go back in your >>>> browser. >>> >>> >>> Based on Inspector use the error message is coming from a noscript file >>> returned by accounts.google.com. Return is very quick (cached)? >>> >>> I think the error message is misleading. Javascript is enabled in my OS >>> X browsers - Safari and Chrome. I presume this dialog is using WebKit >>> though, and I can't speak to the state of WebKit. >>> >>> I am able to to authenticate with similar dialogs for Google Photos >>> Backup, Google Drive, and so on. >>> >>> So something is wrong, but it's hard to debug. It's something in my >>> Mavericks environment, perhaps something to do with WebKit. >>> >>> Anyone have any ideas on anything to try? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
