Zotero Connector is unable to communicate to Standalone-Vers

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humpsy
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Zotero Connector is unable to communicate to Standalone-Vers

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Hello,

today I found an issue realted to Zotero Standalone, Zotero Connector and Adblock Plus. (Zotero is a program for manage literature in scientific work.)

As far I detected, the problem is my installation of Adblock Plus version 2.9.1. Is it deactivated, Zotero Connector (also a Firefox plugin) transfers the data properly.
Is it activated, at the http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/ping, which can be called to test the connection between the desktop program and the plugin) I can see "Endpoint does not support method".

I tried to whitelist the URLs

http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/ping
http://127.0.0.1:23119
http://127.0.0.1/
http://localhost

and rebooted Firefox.


At http://127.0.0.1:23119 AdBlock counts hits, but although it's whitelisted, Zotero Connector tells me that "Zotero is offline".

Does anyone have an idea how I can solve this conflict between AdBlock Plus and Zotero Connector? Maybe I should tell, that two days ago AdBlock Plus and Zotero worked properly together and the issue occurs only since this morning.

Thank you in advance!
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mapx
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Re: Zotero Connector is unable to communicate to Standalone-Vers

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try disabling easylist , see if still happens.

if it's working ==> it's about some filter in easylist, try finding that filter (open blockable items list, see what's blocked)
humpsy
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Re: Zotero Connector is unable to communicate to Standalone-Vers

Post by humpsy »

Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that easylist causes the problem.
In addition I deactivated the Adblock Warning Removal List and enabled the unobtrusive ads, but without success.

*EDIT 3.07 pm*

Forget what I've said, it was Easylist. Only with a Firefox restart the deactivation didn't work, i had to deactive and active ABP. The filter that causes the problem was a regular expression:

/\:\/\/([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}/$third-party,xmlhttprequest

Thanks a lot for the hint!
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mapx
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Re: Zotero Connector is unable to communicate to Standalone-Vers

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you could report / comment here (the filter was added / changed yesterday):
https://github.com/easylist/easylist/co ... 5bac15f0dc
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