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Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification
From: John Andrew Morrison
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:49:25 +0100



Brad Merritt wrote:

> >>John,
> >>True, it would be great, especially for us game programmers who have our
> >>scoreboards, info, etc driven by local databases, so we can only serve the
>
> >>games off our servers.
>
> >>The risk is you could say:
> >>Load Variable
> >>server.domain.com/somefolder/somefile.txt
>
> >>And look at that, you have have someones files. This would only work with
> >>people's NT machines which are configured incorrectly, but that happens
> >>pretty often it would seem.
>
> You see this doesn't make sense to me. It seems flash only accepts a string
> in the key=value format so only if the asp had a response.write in that
> format
> would Flash get anything useful. Even then, you would have to write some
> complex
> algorithm to find the key values that became variables, and to top it off
> the
> likelyhood of something interesting being discovered is slim. Am I missing
> something?
>
> Thanks,
> John Andrew Morrison


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