From: Richard Rinehart (rinehart@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 15:05:23 PST
Just fyi everone. I found the answer to my previously posted problem
with Flash movies. It turns out it was not the mime type on the
server at all.
It turns out that Flash (4.0 up) has a security feature that does
not allow a movie to make calls (load variables) to any database or server
*outside* the IP domain of the original host. So, if I go to a movie at
http://a.myhost.com, then my load variables are limited to ONLY other
servers/databases located at x.myhost.com. If I try to load some variables
from b.yourhost.com but my movie sits on a.myhost.com it will not work; no
warning message, and no documentation of this. I fixed it by putting my
flash movie in the same domain as the database; but I still think (for me)
this severely limits flash as a way of building truly sophisticated sites
that may need to draw on other servers from other domains.
I solved my problem by just putting the Flash movie on a machine on
the same subnet as the database server. I notice however that while
Macromedia claims that you should be able to make calls to any other
machine in the same domain "berkeley.edu" this does not turn out to
be true. It actually only works in the same sub-domain. So, each
campus subdomain of say "art.berkeley.edu" can only make Flash movies
which call on other databases from "x.art.berkeley.edu".
I thought this was interesting enough to pass on.
-- -Richard Rinehart --------------- Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive www.bampfa.berkeley.edu --------------- Instructor, Department of Art Practice art.berkeley.edu --------------- University of California, Berkeley ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server:
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