RE: FLASH: repost: problem retrieving CGI from server/loopy swf loading

[Glen Rhodes]

Is your SWF file on the same server as your CGI?  Flash has a security

limitation so that you can't load variables from a CGI that's on another

server from the SWF.  It's the same kind of restriction that Java has.


So, if your .SWF is on www.joe.com then your CGI must be located at

www.joe.com too.


HTH

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Glen Rhodes

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Subject: FLASH: repost: problem retrieving CGI from server/loopy swf

loading



Sorry to be a pest, but I posted this Friday afternoon and still haven't

gotten a response...  :(


I have a flash movie that interacts with CGI, sends/recieves variables,

works fine when I preview movie on my desktop.


When I view the movie live from the server, however, none of the CGI

interactions work.  I read somewhere about a problem referencing CGI but I

can't find it in the tech notes and I can't remember what it is.


Anyone have a clue?


also...

I have a nested MC that is created dynamically based on a number returned

from CGI.  (If the # is 7, 7 MCs are created.)

Once created, that MC has certain fields loaded into it from the CGI as

well-- one of the fields is a URL for an external movie.  (Load Movie,

"variableurl.swf", target="sometarget")


Flash doesn't seem to like this sequence of events-- it goes into a loop

where the browser displays:

connecting...

loaded 1K of 70

connecting...

loaded 1k of 70


..and it goes on.


Is there some known issue with loading an swf from an external http://   ...

or with loading swfs in simultaneously...?  There is no loop on my movie

that would cause the Load action itself to loop, so I was wondering if there

are known bugs involving this.


thanks

olga




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