Re: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification

[John Andrew Morrison]

Thanks John,


And to others participating in this discussion. As I have been

thinking about my needs I may have a solution. Before I

go down the time sink of testing maybe some of you could

answer the question forthright. Can a movie be loaded from

a different server, and if so can that movie be used to interact

with the server it was loaded from? If no one has experimented

with this let me know and I'll do the testing and report back.


Thanks,

John Andrew Morrison


John Dowdell wrote:


> 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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