I am building a Flex (version 2) application on my machine with a Tomcat server that is hosting the application, a couple of servlets and an Axis2 web service. The application runs fine if I load it from an address starting with http://127.0.0.1:8080. However, the web-service call will fail if I load the exact same application from http://localhost:8080. The gives me a "Security error accessing url" Alert.
I've read in the past that Flash is strict about the interpretations of domains, so I'm not surprised by this behavior. Further, I am theorizing this is happening because the WSDL file for the service uses the numeric address rather than localhost. Since that is the only usage of the numeric IP address I can find (all the URLs I have constructed use localhost). I have a crossdomain.xml file that is reachable at "http://127.0.0.1:8080:8080/crossdomain.xml";. It's not solving the problem. The crossdomain file has this format: <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*" secure="false"/> </cross-domain-policy> The web service is built using Apache Axis2. So, its address in the WSDL is: http://l27.0.0.1:8080/axis2/services/TestService. Is there some special location or content to the policy file that I'm missing? Thank you.
