Re: FLASH: Newer Netscape plugin breaking ASP access?

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hello all -


We're having some problems with the Search features of our TechNotes. The

Search field on the Flash Support Center can be used, but does not return a

full list of matches. Also, using the "go" method and the TechNote ID number

yields a 404 not found. Hopefully, this will be fixed shortly. This just

started happening and I'm sure it'll be fixed just as quickly.



RE: ASP. Two people have are having questions about this. 


-Netscape and Load Variables. I know of no reason why Netscape, with the

Flash 4 Player, could not load variables unless the data source is hosted on

a different domain. If so, check out this TechNote:


    Load Variables from a data source on another domain is not working 

    14213 

   

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/loadvars_security.htm


If you can't send data from the movie to the ASP file, check this out

(although it's unrelated to above):


    Attempts to send data from a Flash movie to a server are not working

    14234

    http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/ampersand.htm


-ASP, CGI, ColdFusion - all of these work fine with Flash. While ASP may not

be mentioned in every context as CGI is talked about, they all relay info to

Flash just fine. As long as the data is in URL Form-Encoded format and the

name/value pairs are delineated by ampersands (see p. 183 in the Flash 4

manual), this can be done. It is not necessary to write a text file for

this, as the Flash movie is capable of communicating with the ASP page (or

whatever) directly. A good example of this is in your Flash 4 folder, in the

Sample Pages > Chat folder.


If you can read data from text files but not ASP, it may be a

timing/scripting issue in Flash. I'm not able to say in any case what's not

working in your project, but text files are static. Using an ASP page and

calls from Flash requires planning to make sure the values are returned in

time to use them.


-Matt

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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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From: RedStar <redstarclix [dot] pt>

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Cc: dejarnettttu [dot] edu, "DeJarnett, Gary" <a3gddtechmail [dot] admin [dot] ttu [dot] edu>

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Newer Netscape plugin breaking ASP access?

>Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2000, 3:05 PM

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>"DeJarnett, Gary" wrote:

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>This could be one of two problems. If you're using version r25(PC) or

>r21(Mac) of the plugin then it's one problem, but as you say you

>downloaded it today this should not be the case and as Macromedia has

>pulled out (?!?) technote 14234 I won't comment on this problem.

>The second alternative is if your asp is on a different domain than the

>one your swf file is. There was a security problem with the flash plugin

>that Macromedia addressed that allowed this to happen. I won't comment

>much further on this also because the corresponding technote also

>appears to have vanished.(?!?)

>

>I'll take the opportunity to suggest that Macromedia put up a technote

>with a history of changes (a simple changelog would be nice) in each

>version of the flash player.

>It would help those of us that are helping others (clients, list etc.)

>

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