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2008-06-16 10:40:31
AnnMeeker
Registered: May 29 2008
Posts: 7
Answered

When opening my form in Acrobat 8.1.2, am receiving a Security Warning "....If you trust the site, choose Allow. If you do not trust the site, choose Block." That Security Warning does NOT show up when I open the form in Acrobat 8.0. Evidently there is a bug in 8.1.2?? Actually, all I care about is whether there is a work-around! The form works fine after clicking on the "Allow" button, but I don't want to hassle/confuse the user with this dialog box everytime they open the form. Changing the Trust Manager setting to "Allow all web sites" does not resolve the issue.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1.2, Windows
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2008-06-16 11:28:23
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AnnMeeker
Registered: May 29 2008
Posts: 7
sorry, I seem to have inadvertently deleted an Answer that someone had kindly posted. It said that Adobe intentionally tightened up their security parameters in 8.1.2 and deliberately causes the Security Warnings (not a bug).

Does anyone know work-around for this? I'm very much hoping we don't HAVE to have Security Warnings popping up on forms that users open dozens of times daily!
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2008-06-16 13:40:48
#2
AnnMeeker
Registered: May 29 2008
Posts: 7
ah-ha! I've subsequently discovered it was the event.target.URL section of my code that was triggering the security warnings. I removed that part of my Javascript, and voila, no more security warnings.

SEE NEXT POST for information directly from Adobe!!
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2008-06-17 12:37:05
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AnnMeeker
Registered: May 29 2008
Posts: 7
I subsequently received official message from Adobe! So here's the info for future people looking for info on this "problem":

I can confirm that the security warning in Reader 8.1+ is to be expected. We did tighten security as of Reader 8.1 and the property in question allows the form to access basic information about the source of the document. In some cases this could be considered a security risk because the file path could include sensitive information such as a password so that is the reason for the warning message. This warning can be avoided if the document is certified and the user opening the document trusts the certifying party to execute privileged JavaScript. The warning can also be avoided by putting the event.target.url code in a trusted function but these functions can only be executed from batch, console or application initialization events (see the Acrobat 8 JavaScript API Reference for more information on a privileged function -- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_api_reference.pdf).
Let me know if you require further assistance.
Thanks,
Justin Poole
Technical Account Manager
Adobe Systems Inc.
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