The Movie Database Support
Support → API Support
Problems with new API doc website
posted by roland684STAFFMOD on June 16, 2014 at 6:59 AM
I noticed the documentation site at http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/ has changed. The new site does something insecure:
Error: SecurityError: The operation is insecure. Source File: https://apiary.a.ssl.fastly.net/assets/bundles/components-b577e85f86961194.js Line: 8
Resulting in a completely empty page when using firefox. It might be a third party plugin like noscript which blocks this, I don't know. There is nothing I can enable/disable to get it to work and something serious enough that you are not allowed to allow it, is probably something you do not want to allow anyway. (just like disabling a virus scanner to get a program to work would be a very bad thing to do)
The script is a minified script, so it's impossible to debug easily. I can do little more than report it.
Reply by roland684
on June 16, 2014 at 7:23 AM
I got the site working. Apparently you now need to allow cookies just to view the site. Having no cookies never triggers security warnings, so I guess there is a codepath which is triggered when cookies are disabled which does something so insecure the browser feels it needs to block it.
Doesn't every chapter on cookies start with a warning that you can't trust on cookies being available as browsers (like the google indexing bot) might not support cookies or users might have blocked cookies for privacy reasons? It is bad to create a site which relies on cookies, it's even worse to not to display a proper warning, but do something resulting in blank screens an security warnings.
Reply by Travis Bell
on June 16, 2014 at 11:15 AM
I'll mention it to the guys at Apiary. We don't run this service, only use it for our documentation.
Cheers.