[gui-talk] FW: [Cavi-discuss] Webvisum in trouble?

[Rob Tabor]

Good afternoon list and Thanks Gerald.

This info is very helpful for those who are still using XP and were unable
to locate the host file through the path specified in the message I
forwarded from Ali Hajami, my CAVI colleague. I don't know what the path to
the host file would be in Vista, but perhaps someone more familiar with
Vista could enlighten us. 

In any event, we are all immensely relieved that the Webvism domain outage
was temporary after all. This notwithstanding, I suspect NFB and ACB will
still need to make a concerted push to find a universally accessible
alternative to captchas for assuring human rather than automated data input
when creating or modifying an online account or doing ecommerce. Thanks
again for the info.

Best regards,
Rob "jayhawker" Tabor

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Gerald Levy
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 6:04 AM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] FW: [Cavi-discuss] Webvisum in trouble?


As I reported yesterday morning, Webvisum is up and running again, so it is
no longer  necessary to modify the Hosts file to get it to work. BTW, on
some XP systems, the Hosts file is located at C:\I386\Hosts, not
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.

Gerald


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Tabor" <rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'" 
<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 11:05 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] FW: [Cavi-discuss] Webvisum in trouble?


> Good morning all,
>
> Thanks to my good colleagues at Cisco Academy for the Visually Impaired
> (CAVI), a promising workaround has been discovered to enable us to access
> WebVisum despite the expiration of the public access domain, which we all
> hope is only a temporary circumstance. The instructions for this 
> alternative
> solution, which enables access to the Webvism host server, appear below.
> HTH and best regards,
> Rob "Jayhawker" Tabor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cavi-discuss-bounces at ciscovision.org
> [mailto:cavi-discuss-bounces at ciscovision.org] On Behalf Of Ali
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:29 PM
> To: Discussionlist for CAVI
> Subject: Re: [Cavi-discuss] Webvisum in trouble?
>
> For now, only the webvisum.com domain is dead. You can still connect to 
> the
> API with the following steps, though I have no idea if that, too, will go
> down at some point, which will kill it off for good. We don't need
> webvisum.com to use the service, but we do need the Webvisum server and 
> API.
> But until then:
> 1. Open c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.
> 2. Using Notepad, open the file "hosts" with no extension.
> 3. Add the following line to the end of the file:
> 204.14.19.231 api.webvisum.com
>
>
> On 20-Jun-12 22:25, bando?ers wrote:
>> I just received this message. Does anyone have any information as to
> what's going on with webvisum? Is the webvisum server on this domain?
>> I solved a captcha with webvisum with in the last couple days, more or
> less, but it may have been before the 19th.
>> I have never seen, or even heard rumors about how many people use
> webvisum, but I so wish we could get one in two who use and depend on
> webvisum as I do to donate $5 each to sustain the project, and hopefully
> inspire a bit of new dev work.
>> Regards,
>> --
>> A _very concerned Burt
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Richard<anarchyforever@:30 -0700
>> Subject: [VINUX-SUPPORT] WebVisum Domain Expired
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Webvisum for Firefox no longer seems to work.  The domain which is
>> owned by GoDaddy is gone with its functionality.  When you go to
>> www.webvisum.com, you'll see the following message:
>>
>> webvisum.com
>> NOTICE: This domain name expired on 06/19/2012 and is pending renewal
>> or deletion.
>>
>> I'm unsure if this is temporary or permanent.
>>
>
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