I use session_start() in my PHP files and it works fine (Although I use Remoting).
Perhaps there is something else causing the problem that is masked by the removal of the session_start() ? To do what you want, could you perhaps use the referrer header? If the referrer is not your SWF then don't send the file. HTH Steve --- In [email protected], "Ramsey, Robert L" <robert-ram...@...> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an app that makes http requests to a php script on the server. If I have session_start() in the back end file so I can use session variables in php, I get the following error: > > [RPC Fault faultString="HTTP request error" faultCode="Server.Error.Request" > > faultDetail="Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]. > > URL: https://path.to/my/file.php";] > > But only when I use Internet Explorer. If I use Firefox, it all works beautifully. > > If I rem out the session_start() line in the php script it works fine, so I can confirm that that is the line that is causing the error. Has anyone seen this? > > Here's my goal. I have an app that plays videos and users aren't supposed to be able to download the video easily. The very popular firefox plugin Video DownloadHelper can see the mp4 files (but not the flv files for some reason) and download them. I use a php file to read the contents of the videos from a non-web accessible folder. I want to use mp4. What I did was to set a php session variable when the user selects the file from the combobox, then immediately fetch the video. Right before it sends the video the php file unsets the session variable. This means that the user has to use my combobox to see the file, because it is the only thing that can set the session variable and the variable is destroyed as the file is sent. > > This is only meant to stop casual copying. Our faculty is aware that there's always a way to capture the video. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Bob >
