Re: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification

[John Dowdell]

At 1:49 PM 6/30/0, John Andrew Morrison wrote:

>  How does flash receive and store an entire file not in

>  the standard key=value format written directly to it.


It's true that the current formatting requirements are a practical

minimization of data which can be sent. There were some examples (which I

need to keep silent about) where this would make a realworld difference.


But atop that, just the possibility that "protected" data could be

retrieved, regardless of some constraints upon it, would  enough to

disqualify and taint the Flash Player in some distributions... a

decision-maker would not have to fully understand a magazine article in

order to draw damaging conclusions from it.



fwiw, the Shockwave Player implements this protection slightly

differently... it shows the visitor a dialog saying that a request has been

made to load data from domainX, and lets them grant or deny permission.

Some developers feel this is too scary for some audiences, but other

developers appreciate the option.


If you find that this would be useful for your own work, then a note to

wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com

 saying "I want the same cross-domain data-access

privilege dialog that Shockwave has" (or words to that effect) would help

the development team adjust their prioritizations, thanks.


jd






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