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Hi,

I tried using the professional edition of the Screen-Scraper to configure firefox to work with it, the browser throws the following error when trying to access any website as I try using it as a proxy server:

Access is denied for host: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0

Alter your web browser settings so that you're no longer using
screen-scraper as a proxy, then click here for help on this error.

I have tried other suggestions in the forum to no avail. I need to know what I'm missing out.

Thanks,
Dapo Lawore

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dapor on 08/25/2009 at 5:30 am

Are you using version

Are you using version 4.5?

What is your OS?

Does this happen on all sites that you try to proxy, or just a specific site?

 jason on 08/25/2009 at 9:45 am

Yes I use version 4.5 and it

Yes I use version 4.5 and it is used to work until recently when I started using it again after a while of not using it. I need to use it as a proxy server because the website I used it for then has changed its links.
It does not work for any site at all.
I use a Mac OS.

 dapor on 08/26/2009 at 11:53 am

Hi, I'm a Mac user as well.

Hi,

I'm a Mac user as well. The quickest and easiest way to deal with this is to simply blank out the "Hosts to allow to connect" text box in the "Settings" dialog box (under the "Servers" section). If security is an issue you can simply include some portion of the IP address in that box (e.g., 0:0:0:0).

Kind regards,

Todd

 todd on 08/26/2009 at 1:33 pm

Redirecting to a logout page!

Hi,
I found an alternative of downloading the trial version so I can connect with the browser but I still have a problem... it redirects to the logout page. I think it is a configuration issue but I haven't a clue yet. any ideas?

 dapor on 08/27/2009 at 5:08 am

Url redirection to the logout page

Hi,

Thanks for your assistance so far. I am still stuck with what I am doing but I found out that the Referer was the problem page that was the cause of the redirect. Their referrers urls of the pages where different but I don't know how to stop that effect. What am I doing wrong?

Wrong referrer: http://www.cscsnigerialtd.com/c/portal/login?p_l_id=10125&redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fcertificatedepositlisting

Preferred Requesting URL: http://www.cscsnigerialtd.com/c

 dapor on 08/28/2009 at 8:12 am

The referrer is part of the

The referrer is part of the HTTP request, and very rarely does a site track what referrer is used. In cases where it does, you can use this:

http://community.screen-scraper.com/API/setReferer

 jason on 08/28/2009 at 9:26 am