1) is all this running on one machine? 2) which OS? 3) what does your hosts file say?
I had same problem, "localhost" vs "name.com" I am running Apache 2.x not Tomcat on Linux, Flex3 my crossdomain <?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- http://john.znyx.com/crossdomain.xml --> <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="name.domain.com"/> <allow-access-from domain="localhost"/> <allow-access-from domain="<ip>"/> <allow-access-from domain="domain.com"/> </cross-domain-policy> my hosts file 127.0.0.1 localhost name.domain.com 127.0.1.1 name.domain.com <ip> name name.domain.com ... HTH John ralcab wrote: > 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. > > >
