Does anyone have any knowledge of how to detect whether or not a simple REST
call to a server (java/php/etc.) is from the Flash Player (flex app)?
It would appear that "application/x-shockwave-flash" can be detected by the
server in the HTTP_ACCEPT header as long as the type is defined in the html
wrapper like this...
<embed src="${swf}.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="${bgcolor}"
width="${width}" height="${height}"
name="${application}" align="middle"
play="true"
loop="false"
quality="high"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer";>
</embed>
Outside of this methodology, is there another approach or perhaps something the
flash player sends along with each request?
I saw this reference as well so any additional comments are welcome.
The "HTTP_X_FLASH_VERSION" HTTP field, which returns the players
FLASH version in a server side script, only appears to be available when
opening a .swf in Internet Explorer.
Nothing is returned for HTTP_X_FLASH_VERSION
when opening the same .swf in Google Chrome
or Firefox 3+.
