Discussion on Salon Premium Pass | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Tim Pierce

Tim Pierce — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:06:07 +0000

Found that this script no longer works (FF 2.0.0.12, Greasemonkey 0.7.20080121.0). Changed /src/pass/gateway to /src/pass/sitepass and all is well again. Filed a bug report with vlajbert.

Archived Comments, replied by Michael 3

Michael 3 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:43:07 +0000

This is superb! One of the most useful scripts. five stars

Archived Comments, replied by chris feldmann

chris feldmann — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:25:48 +0000

Just an update: amazingly, the version at http://skrewtape.com/salon.user.js STILL works like a charm. Head on over.

Archived Comments, replied by Ed Stokes

Ed Stokes — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:06:34 +0000

The version at http://skrewtape.com/salon.user.js works like a charm. 5 stars.

Archived Comments, replied by Jeff 1

Jeff 1 — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:51:37 +0000

Never mind - I realized I should used the link mentioned in your comment of December 10, 2005, and it worked.

Archived Comments, replied by Jeff 1

Jeff 1 — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:49:47 +0000

This script isn't working for me. It brings up the gateway page and I'm forced to watch an ad before accessing all of Salon's content.

Archived Comments, replied by Avi 1

Avi 1 — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:05:58 +0000

I've updated the version (same location) with some changes that might help you. The previous version worked fine for me, but I've been told that in some cases FF would get upset with the spin-wait I was doing. This new version is better anyways.

Archived Comments, replied by David 4

David 4 — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:35:25 +0000

Tried Avi's script but it just causes Firefox to hang. Using FF 1.5, Greasemonkey 0.6.4, OS X. It says "transferring data from Salon.com" and the beach ball spins and spins and I have to force Firefox to quit. The site loads fine with Greasemonkey disabled (but with Adblock on, it makes it impossible to view the site pass so I'm essentially locked out of the entire site).

Archived Comments, replied by Avi 1

Avi 1 — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:33:06 +0000

The problem is that this uses XMLHttpRequest directly, which seems not to work any longer in GM 0.6.4. There's a new builtin, GM_xmlhttpRequest, which does work. I've fixed up a version, but I don't see how I can contact the author, so I'll put it here:

http://skrewtape.com/salon.user.js

People can use my version for now and hopefully soon the author will be able to upload it officially.

Archived Comments, replied by JJ Smiley

JJ Smiley — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:57:29 +0000

A few days ago I upgraded to FF 1.5 and Greasemoneky 0.6.4, and today I find that the Salon Premium Pass is no longer working. I s it just me?

Archived Comments, replied by Vlajbert

Vlajbert — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:39:23 +0000

Added a hook for /src/pass/gateway/ interstitial.

Archived Comments, replied by Alec_Burgess

Alec_Burgess — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:32:59 +0000

Seems bullet-proof now, whether first click is on a "wire" story or a "house" story.
btw: I noticed on the Salon's front page:
>>Salon Is Hiring:
# VP Technology, SF<<

I guess the new guy's first task will be to break this script :-)

Archived Comments, replied by Vlajbert

Vlajbert — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:00:08 +0000

Ok, so the code dropping page has different behavior on the 'wire' stories then the house stories. The cookie dropping page is more particular about the request then the 'wire' story pages. So I'm using a background request to call the cookie dropping page so the actual page being views has no affect on the request to the cookie dropping page.

AKA, new version.

Archived Comments, replied by Alec_Burgess

Alec_Burgess — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:25:46 +0000

Vlajbert: I just installed v0.0.6
Didn't work :-(
Checking javascript console:

6 occurences of this error:
Error: OAS_RICH is not defined
Source File: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html
Line: 136

then this error:
Error: doc.body has no properties
Source File: chrome://greasemonkey/content/browser.xul
Line: 148

followed by 8 occurances of:
Error: OAS_RICH is not defined
Source File: http://www.salon.com/index.html
Line: 131

Note: If / when you post a new version, could you post to the greasemonkey list greasemonkey@mozdev.org. or privately to burale-at-aci.on.ca ?

I haven't found any way to monitor these comments by individual script yet :-(

Archived Comments, replied by Vlajbert

Vlajbert — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:18:50 +0000

Today update has been uploaded. :)

Archived Comments, replied by Vlajbert

Vlajbert — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:07:48 +0000

Ack, yet another update. I rewrote the script to follow Salon's click path. They're monkeying around with cookies and/or JS, they added a string %0A to the end of the crumb cookie real origional. This is just cleaner then trying to spoof cookie.

Archived Comments, replied by Alec_Burgess

Alec_Burgess — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:35:11 +0000

Confirmed, thanks Vlajbert

Archived Comments, replied by Vlajbert

Vlajbert — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:15:51 +0000

Ok, more updates.

1) There is a case where Salon's JS will mark your Preium Pass cookie as bad. I look for this bad cookie and fix it.

2) Fixed the type that Alec found. Thanks Alec.

Archived Comments, replied by Alec_Burgess

Alec_Burgess — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:11:20 +0000

my bad - it looks like its working now. I hadn't yet uninstalled Mark Pilgrim's earlier "Salon Auto-Pass". I think the two were probably stepping on each other.

Note your header comments refer to "Salon Auto-Pass" while in the header its identified as "Salon Premium Pass"

Archived Comments, replied by Alec_Burgess

Alec_Burgess — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:00:27 +0000

Not working for me :-(
I hope you can get this fixed or that I've just done something stupid.
Greasemonkey 0.34/Firefox 1.04

Archived Comments, replied by Vlajbert

Vlajbert — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:21:07 +0000

This has been updated to reflect Salon's javascript changes.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:00 +0000

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