Does the server hosting the webservices have a crossdomain.xml file? The crossdomain.xml file has to be on the server/domain you're trying to access, not on the server/domain the Flash movie resides on.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14213 regards, Muzak ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liam Mincy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash + Web Services problems >I thought I had sent an email with my resolution, if not I appologize :) > > The services in question were not allowing us to access them through the > means Flash > was communicating with the web service from our server. The company that was > hosting > the service said that there was nothing on teir end that would prevent the > transfer > of data, as demonstrated with our local access to the services. There may > have been > a firewall issue or something else happening on the Windows Server that was > hosting > things that was blocking the transfer. > > I did not come to a resolution, per se, what we ended up doing was writing a > .NET > web service on the same machine as the Flash. That web service sat between > the Flash > and the remote web service to pass the data along and return the results with > its > own exposed methods. > > This was deadline / crunch time and since I couldn't get any real help from > the > server people, who said that everything was working, I just went with what I > knew > would work. > > On another project, however, I did use corssdomain.xml when callng Flash from > within > an iframe which called another web service on the machine local to the Flash > movie > within the iframe and that seemed to work well. > > When I get a moment I want to play with this to see what I am doing wrong or > if > there are just certain types of web services that do not communicate with > Flash when > on a server under my setup. > > What type of web service are you calling? What environment does the Flash live > within? Is there a crossdomain.xml file? > > liam m- > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com 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
