There was mention on the SWFObject list that the expressinstall
servers were being hit pretty hard right now because myspace (the #1
site on the internet traffic wise) started requiring Flash Player 9,
and are using expressinstall...
so there's thousands (millions?) of people upgrading right now and
for the past couple of weeks.
just gotta wait for adobe to either add more servers or for the flow
of upgrades to settle down a bit.
On Jul 31, 2006, at 4:11 PM, orange wrote:
Hi,
I have been implementing the Express Install feature on my site for
the last few days, and after extensively testing it, I have found
some of the servers it relays on are intermittently not available.
It really fails very often.
I have tested this for several days, on different browsers, and
using the default playerProductInstall.swf, and customizing it.
The result is always the same a good percentage of the times (maybe
more than 50% I would say):
The Express Install dialog comes up as expected, with the spining
circle, then is says 'Connecting..." and it stays there for as long
as you wait.
If it fails and you immediately try again it usually fails again.
You have to try at a later time, like 20-30 minutes later and see
if it works then.
I have noticed a similar unreliability on some pages at the old
macromedia website (the problem is usually that it can't connect to
the server).
Does anybody have experienced this problem. Could you test it on
your site, or here:
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/expressinstall.html
(you need an older flash player)
I have also just tested this url:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer
(which is often included as the embed tag pluginspage url), and
this fails as well (cannot find server)
Please let me know if it works in your tests.
Thank you very much
Orange
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