Re: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification

[John Andrew Morrison]

Thanks Brad,


That is unfortunate. This capability would really put Flash over the

top as a development tool, as well as benefitting the web community

by reducing traffic and server loads. Has there been any discussion

as to how this could be implemented without the security risk? What

are the risks?


Thanks,

John


Brad Merritt wrote:


> John,

> This  was an issue with the earlier Flash plug-ins. You could load from

> different domains and this was a security hazard, so the newer F4 plug-in

> can only load from the same server.

>

> So if you do load from a different domain, people who have not downloaded

> the F4 plug-in in while could see it, but anyone who downloaded within the

> past about 8 months (total guess on the time there) could not see it.

>

> brad

>

> Subject: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification

>

> I  would appreciate verification, or better yet refudiation, that Flash

> does not allow the loading of variables from Domains other than

> the one servicng the movie. I have successfully used loadvariables by

> referencing a document relatively

> (somedir/somefile.asp) from a movie loaded in www.somedomain.com. What I

> would like to do is load the variables

> from www.someotherdomain.com/somedir/somefile.asp. This would be useful

> for two reasons, one I could do some

> load balancing from the client, two I could use the relative strengths

> of both the Unix Perl/PHP environment and ASP

> Scripting environment for different tasks. I look forward to your

> comments and insights.

>

>   Thanks,

>   John Andrew Morrison

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