I found that manually creating the URL Query string was the best way to solve this, especially since some of the name-value-pairs I needed to pass were URLs with Query strings.
Since you're using GET you can just: url = "http://foo.com?"; nvp1 = "bar=baz&"; getURL(url + nvp1, "GET"); HTH, Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Wichman Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 8:35 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list; Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] getURL Hi, i looked into the settings manager, but couldnt find it. Any ideas for the workaround? greetz Hans At 02:02 PM 12/12/2005, Mick G wrote: >This is a new security setting in Flash 8 - drives me crazy. I rolled >back to Flash 7 in one of my browsers. If you have Flash 8, there are >workarounds. > >http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/set >tings_manager.html > >The settings manager being an online app is so weird. Makes no sense to me. > > >On 12/12/05, Hans Wichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi list, > > > > it seems when playing content in Flash 8, using > > getUrl("myFIle.html", "_blank", "GET") does no longer append > > variables to the given file when run locally. > > Can anyone confirm this and does anyone have a workaround? > > > > greetz > > Hans > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > >_______________________________________________ >Flashcoders mailing list >[email protected] >http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

