Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

thanks for your help Juan. so yeah the conclusion is this: FB doesn't want their video content served to non-facebook places(obviously). They check that via the referer prop in the header that is sent. In most browsers the referer is turned off by default, so it actually works. In IE the referer

Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

Very weird. As you have noticed, it seems facebook is not serving the file under some circumstances (it returns a 404 http error code) I could make it fail consistently if: 1) The referer is set and is in a "non facebook" domain AND 2) The user agent is IE. I got the request to work if I set

Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

thanks. I think the problem has been isolated, on the URLRequest, the response is as follows: http://pastebin.com/AmwCtAcD in there, the 'referer' param is causing the file to 404 - if we remove it then the video loads correctly. anyone have any idea on how to either set that param(not possibl

Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

I've had experienced problems with Facebook Connect on IE only. In my case, the user wouldn't even be able to log in, so I'm not sure this is the same problem you're experiencing. But anyway, maybe it's worth checking this: http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-url

[Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only

hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks! ___