We've got some legacy content, lots of it, that at the moment is only accessible except through 'watching' it in a browser or through a ridiculously problematic database lookup. (Seems the database engineers were naively designing a model of the universe in their object model). I'm looking into doing a 'port' of this legacy content so that we can move it to our latest webapp platform. Because of the complexity of the Ajax-ish calls and the reliance on sharing JS object trees back and forth a Perl spider (which was my first shot) is not an option.
I've been looking into scripting a browser with a WebMonkey-ish or IE/ActiveX process to walk the JavaScript object hierarchy and snag all of the SWF's. The app we want to port is basically video in a browser accompanied by time-synchronized Flash pushes. This will be a one-off job and will not be published to the web. Just an app to snag SWF's and create some XML for the port. Can you guys think of any way I could use JS to capture SWF's, from the cache or from the http stream? Direct wget-ish fetches are out of the question because of the intricacies of the app. So I'm hoping depending on the browser's own capabilities and enhancing the Viewing app will do the trick. FireFox will let me grab cache data with about:cache?device=disk and I'm looking into walking that but I suspect that there could be a cleverer approach from this list... Sorry if this is off topic... Jeff http://jeffharrington.org _______________________________________________ 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
