Re: FLASH: Tango / Flash 4 / Mac problem

[John Dowdell]

At 4:43 AM 7/27/99, Mike Yrabedra wrote:

> Tango is not receiving the variables in which are used to

> search with. Does Flash send variables out as Arguments

> (like a standard  HTML form) or what?


HTML FORMs are pretty much the model, true.


Across various applications it can be a little tricky to set up the first

instance of inter-application communication. One of the key tactics is to

try to test each step of the process.


For instance, a generic CGI routine that just sends back the requesting URL

can be useful as a debugging tool... you can think of it as a long-distance

tracing function. This is a way to see what message your applet is sending

out.


On the flip side, you can test your server routine by trying to send the

same content from a real HTML FORM. This is a way of isolating and

identifying any addressing or configuration issues purely on the server.


Just on pure techy intuition, I'd wonder whether perhaps there an issue

with the URL-encoding of user text entry there... nothing in your

description points to this directly, but what I've seen in the general WWW

newsgroups makes my spidey-sense tingle about the actual content of the

outgoing message.


Sorry, nothing firm here... a confirmation that yes, Flash should be able

to submit data to Lasso just as it does to other serverside engines... if

you can zoom in on the core of the failure there then I'd be interested in

tracking the progress too, thanks.


jd






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