If you'd rather have something more secure, then I'd suggest calling a backend to pass it to you. This gets a lot more complicated as you'd now have to tack on session management. The other option is to use JavaScript/AJAX to pull data from a request or response. Are you putting your SWF on an HTML page or a JSP/ASP/PHP page? If it's the former, there really is no other way outside of using session management + XML/JavaScript/AJX. If it's the latter, then you can have the JSP/ASP/PHP page write the referrer to the FlashVars. However, if you get referrer URL's with querystrings attached, you could potentially run into issues there as well as you'd have to parse through the referrer's querystring. I'm not sure if there's an easy answer for this outside of having Flash do a separate call to get the referrer URL once the SWF has loaded.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Mudge Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:00 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting referrer in Flash > You can use FlashVars to pass it into your SWF via the HTML embed. I'm currently using an anchor (foo.swf#abc) or file parameters (foo.swf&item=abc), which work fine. But can I do any better than this? I feel that passing in a parameter is an invitation for tampering... Not that it's incredibly critical, but it'd be nice if developers could just drop-in the SWF without having to configure it. > public _url : String [read-only] This gives the URL of the SWF itself -- this is already known. - Kipp _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
