--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It doesn't provide any benefit to you, it provides benefit to the server > owner. Once all of your clients are hammering your server to get to the > proxy to the remote-server, then you have the first chokepoint for > traffic instead of the remote-server owner who may or may not have > intended to allow that much extra traffic. >
I understand the thinking, but if I can easily create a proxy around the crossdomain file then they've lost that avenue. It's easier to throttle access using firewalls or acls, which they will end up having to do anyway. > > > The security rules are also intended to make sure we don't become the > ultimate spyware and virus development platform. If we did, everyone > would be afraid to download the player and/or run these applications. > > > > If you can find a way to spoof the crossdomain.xml from a remote server, > please let us know. > I don't think I'll put any effort to finding out how to do it since I don't ever plan on using crossdomain files since I already have a working proxy solution. > > > -Alex > > >
