May be I didn't understand you correctly, but if you need to extract SWFs from a page I suggest you two options at the first glance:
1. use a HTTP traffic monitoring program (e.g. Fiddler) in order to trace HTTP requests (and URLs of course) and download the required SWFs from the catched URLs. http://www.fiddlertool.com 2. there is an IE plug-in called Flash Saving Plugin which is capable to display SWFs in the page shown in the browser and save them, or dig into the browser's cache hunting for SWFs. http://www.browsertools.net/Flash-Saving-Plugin/ Attila JH> We've got some legacy content, lots of it, that at the moment is only JH> accessible except through 'watching' it in a browser or through a JH> ridiculously problematic database lookup. (Seems the database engineers JH> were naively designing a model of the universe in their object model). JH> I'm looking into doing a 'port' of this legacy content so that we can JH> move it to our latest webapp platform. Because of the complexity of the JH> Ajax-ish calls and the reliance on sharing JS object trees back and JH> forth a Perl spider (which was my first shot) is not an option. JH> JH> I've been looking into scripting a browser with a WebMonkey-ish or JH> IE/ActiveX process to walk the JavaScript object hierarchy and snag all JH> of the SWF's. The app we want to port is basically video in a browser JH> accompanied by time-synchronized Flash pushes. This will be a one-off JH> job and will not be published to the web. Just an app to snag SWF's and JH> create some XML for the port. JH> JH> Can you guys think of any way I could use JS to capture SWF's, from the JH> cache or from the http stream? Direct wget-ish fetches are out of the JH> question because of the intricacies of the app. So I'm hoping depending JH> on the browser's own capabilities and enhancing the Viewing app will do JH> the trick. JH> JH> FireFox will let me grab cache data with about:cache?device=disk and I'm JH> looking into walking that but I suspect that there could be a cleverer JH> approach from this list... _______________________________________________ [email protected] 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
