Thanks to everyone for all of your responses. What is going to happen, is the application is going to hold a coupon. That coupon will be retrieved from a database and passed into the Flash application. I guess as I am writing this, the script will just check the date and if it is not correct, it can simply not return the coupon. My question revolved around a user manipulating the date passed into the flash application and causing the coupon to show up before the countdown is really up.
Thanks very much. Kevin On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:59 PM, John McCormack <j...@easypeasy.co.uk>wrote: > If the server script knows the acceptable date from the database, it can > just ignore early requests. > > Is the problem that Kevin doesn't want the client swf to hold the date for > fear of it being known? > > If so, a key could be sent instead that relates to the download date and > stored in the database. Each time the swf runs it sends the key and the > server checks that against the date. > > John > > > On 14/03/2011 12:19, Developer wrote: > >> No, I get it. The client and data transfer are insecure. >> >> The hidden information (or the trigger to show the information) should >> come from the server not from the client. >> >> Don >> >> >> On 3/14/2011 3:54 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote: >> >>> Developer skriver: >>> >>>> Wouldn't it also be helpful to have the server-side script verify >>>> (validate) the data the swf is sending back up? >>>> That way if someone manually triggered the date, the server would not >>>> accept it because it doesn't match it's system date. >>>> >>>> Don. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> You have a point. The server can reject anything that the client sends. >>> >>> But at the same time you also fail to get it. The client doesn't have to >>> care for what the server does. So what if the server doesn't like the date? >>> The client has no obligation to care about that. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Flashcoders mailing list >>> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >>> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
