Re: KB905915 Problems with Search Companion

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Thank you very much Rob for your response and confirmation. It's unfortunate
to hear that Microsoft may decide to not fix this bug....but even if they do,
it still might be worthwhile to investigate other ways to accomplish our
goals with this particular part of the application.

I will definitely be researching your suggestions, and hopefully
implementing something soon. If I have any further questions, I will
certainly post back here.

Thanks again!

Brad

"Rob Parsons" wrote:

As an after thought I tried a few tests. What does work is a toolbar button
script.
<script>
//Display The AOL Search Bar
// www.iecustomizer.com
var win = external.menuArguments;
try
{
var wingoogle =
win.open("http://www.aol.com/netfind/refer/microsoft.ie4.html";, "_search");
}
catch(e)
{alert(e);}
</script>

vistit http://www.iecustomizer.com/iebuttonsdownload.htm for some sample
buttons to download (bottom of page)
"Rob Parsons" <iecustomizer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Civel,

I assume that you are installing XP machines. mmm.... I just did some
testing on my machine and yep the window.open(url,'_search') code is
broken. It works fine on a win2k machine.

I tried some work arounds but they did not stick. Also it appears that MS
is dropping the use of the '_search' target as IE7 has no search pane so I
think your only alternatives are to use your own Explorer Bar or a popup
search window. The window.showmodaldialog example on the msdn cd shows you
how to make a popup search window. If you need some help to create your
own search explorer bar let me know as I could do with the work.

"Civel" <Civel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Good Morning,

My office is currently in the process of rolling new computers out to all
of
our users. During this rollout we've discovered an issue with one of our
main web applications on all the new computers.

After much research we've nailed the issue down to a problem with the IE
Security Patch KB905915.

Here's the issue. Our web application initially opens in a normal IE
window, same as any other web application would. On the main window,
there
is a 'Search' link that simply opens a new search page in the IE Search
Companion. (This operation is performed through javascript using
window.open('http://url', '_search')). On all the new computers, when
you
click the search link to open the IE search companion, it automatically
causes the main window to navigate away from the main page and to the
same
page that was opened in the IE search companion. This problem then
dominos
into other problems which eventually cause the search functionality in
the
web application to be completely inoperable.

Once we uninstall the KB905915 security update, the problem disappears
and
everything works properly.

Now my question is, does anybody have any ideas regarding how to correct
this problem without uninstalling the KB905915 update? Maybe special
coding
or headers in the web application, or something else? I'm concerned that
eventually the organizations that we answer to will REQUIRE us to roll
out
the KB905915 update.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Civel.





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