So a loader can be used to communicate with an HTTP Server in a push model?!!! Is this analagous to the way AJAX web sites push content to the client?
This would be an amazing hack! If so, I'm very curious as to how well this works in practice. (I suspect the devil is in the details here.) The loader documentation says the the url needs to be a swf or a jpg. Can you send down arbitrary data? Is it possible to access the content of a loader as bytes? Is it possible to access the content of a loader incrementally (up to bytesLoaded bytes)? Can you detect errors? Can you re-establish communication when there is an error? (Do you just dynamically create a new, invisble loader?). Do you need to destroy the loader after a period of time to release the bytes it accumulates? The benefit of this over XMLSocket would be: - Avoids issues of (client) firewalls with the use of an arbitrary port/protocol for XMLSocket - Simply need to setup a servlet to handle a URL rather than configure a service to handle commmunication over a port. - SSL support should come for free --- In [email protected], "Theodore E Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FlexUI <> mx:Loader <> Local HTTP Server <> Local System -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
