FLASH: Flash 4 silent install for Netscape

[Jan Oosterhuis]

(This question has probably been posed before, but I could not find 

the proper solution.)


Aftershock (2.5) creates  an html page with some JavaScript code that 

uses Java to install the Flash Plugin into Netscape.

A piece of it looks like this:


>if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Win32") >= 0 )

>	jarPath = 

>"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/jars/english/silentflash 

>32.jar"

>else if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Win16") >= 0 )

>	jarPath = 

>"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/jars/english/silentflash 

>16.jar"

>else if (navigator.platform.indexOf("MacPPC") >= 0 )

>	jarPath = 

>"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/jars/english/silentflash 

>ppc.jar"

>if (jarPath.length) {

>	netscape.softupdate.Trigger.StartSoftwareUpdate (jarPath, 

>netscape.softupdate.Trigger.FORCE_MODE);

>.....}


I rewrote some of the code (to detect the Flash 4 plugin), but it 

appears that the above URL's still point to the Flash v3 installers.

Are other links available at Macromedia that can be used for 

installation of the Flash v4 plugin?


(by the way: I discovered that when using this method an already 

present Flash v4 plugin is overwritten by the v3 plugin (win32).)


Jan Oosterhuis

Faculty of Educational Science and Technology

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

e-mail:

J [dot] Oosterhuisedte [dot] utwente [dot] nl

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