Parental control on OSX causing problems

Question

I'm encountering a really weird problem with OSX's parental control feature. If turned on, all requests to JSON resources on our application get aborted. A few facts:

• The URLs look like this: http://some.domain.net/exercise/1-1.json
• It doesn't matter if the resource is loaded via Ajax or if the URL is called directly
• The request reaches the server which successfully sends a response back (according to apache logs)
• Whitelisting URLs doesn't help. In fact, I can even enable "allow unrestricted access to websites" - As long as the parental control is active, the resource can't be loaded
• The problem has nothing to do with certain keywords in the URL (e.g. http://some.domain.net/bleh.json also gets blocked)
• Our application is based on Symfony2 but I don't think that matters

I'm almost sure that it's not a bug with the parental control feature in general, because I couldn't find anything like that on Google - So I must be doing something wrong here.

Answer 1

After an update on our testing machine (OSX 10.8.5) the problem vanished (I suspect the package "Security Update 2014-001" is responsible for this). So if you run into the same problem, try to update your system.