Parental control on OSX causing problems

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I'm encountering a really weird problem with OSX's parental control feature. If turned on, all requests to JSON resources on our application get aborted. A few facts:

The URLs look like this: http://some.domain.net/exercise/1-1.json
It doesn't matter if the resource is loaded via Ajax or if the URL is called directly
The request reaches the server which successfully sends a response back (according to apache logs)
Whitelisting URLs doesn't help. In fact, I can even enable "allow unrestricted access to websites" - As long as the parental control is active, the resource can't be loaded
The problem has nothing to do with certain keywords in the URL (e.g. http://some.domain.net/bleh.json also gets blocked)
Our application is based on Symfony2 but I don't think that matters

I'm almost sure that it's not a bug with the parental control feature in general, because I couldn't find anything like that on Google - So I must be doing something wrong here.

Did you test the file content against a profanity filter? You say it's not the Url, but perhaps the content looks too dirty for the filter? — , Feb 28 '14 at 14:13
In my experience the parental controls on OSX can be very finicky. Have you tried on a brand new account with the parental controls setup? — zchrykng, Mar 02 '14 at 21:40
It might help us to know which specific settings you have enabled in parental controls. What are they? — musicin3d, Mar 05 '14 at 00:50
@musicin3d That's the fun part, even if I enable "allow unrestricted access to websites" the resource gets blocked. So I guess the other settings don't matter? — elHornair, Mar 06 '14 at 15:16
@elHornair have you tried logging out and then back in after switching to allow unrestricted access? — zchrykng, Mar 06 '14 at 16:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 16:04

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After an update on our testing machine (OSX 10.8.5) the problem vanished (I suspect the package "Security Update 2014-001" is responsible for this). So if you run into the same problem, try to update your system.

answered Mar 19 '14 at 16:04

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