Hi,

It's an AS2 Flash application running standalone on Linux requesting stuff from the localhost on various ports - the irritating thing is I still have to implement x-domain files / responses on every port I connect to, I tried setting a policy server up on the default port as per the instructions on the devnet site, but this did not work..

My point is that the standalone Flash application is an exe, like Air, so implies that a higher level of trust is required to run it, therefore it should be allowed more "liberty" than a browser based Flash app. This is one of the most irritating things about doing standalone stuff - I can't load files from the file system because I am requesting over the network. I am doing standalone because this is legacy stuff for a kiosk...

   Glen

Paul Andrews wrote:
Is this a projector or an AIR application?

Seems to me that if you say "network only" to an executable, it's like running it in a browser with no "default" domain, whereas an AIR application isn't restricted.

Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Pike" <g...@engineeredarts.co.uk>
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If that is the case then why is my standalone Flash exe restricted when I set it to allow network access only?

Paul Andrews wrote:
Isn't the context for an AIR application different to a flash application loaded from a browser?

In the browser the flash swf is loaded from a particular domain and access outside that domain requires the crossdomain policy.

In an Air application there is no concept of the domain that the swf is loaded from - it's essentially a desktop application.

Flash in Air and Flash in the browser have different security models.

Paul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johan Nyberg" <johan.nyb...@webguidepartner.com>
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Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:29 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Proof of Concept - HTTPService object doesn't require crossdomain-policy file


Hi, thanks for all the response to my question about the crossdomain.xml. But... I didn't get a lot of response to the fact that HTTPService can access public feeds/content on other sites without the need of a crossdomain.xml

Please check out the code included at the end of this post. I've created a small AIR application (with a certificate) and it works without a problem.

Am I missing something?

But again.. if my Flash app isn't allowed to access content on another site, I can always throw together a simple php-script that extracts the content for me that my Flash then can read...

And then I can go ahead and create my evil banner ad. ;-)

I understand that crossdomain policy files are here to stay. I just don't understand why they don't allow me to access content on other domains that I can access in other ways and then pass on to Flash.

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