No, the crossdomain.xml file goes on the server FROM WHCH you are requesting the data. The idea is that the owner of the data can control access to that data.
http://www.crossdomainxml.org/ A proxy is a good long term solution. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul DeCoursey Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Security error accessing url Maybe I've been misinformed but doesn't the cross domain file need to be one the server that serves the swf file? --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "rzilist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How to get around this error? I've written small Flex application to > retrieve stock info in exchange for company symbol. I've used > Eclipse with Flex plugin. Inside the app, I'm calling webservice on > quote.yahoo.com website. I can load the html page which references > the swf file (by either running it from within Eclipse, or by > opening it in both IE and Firefox). This works fine, and I get some > stock data back. However, if I try serving the page from one of my > local servers, or even copying it (along with other supporting > files) to other location on my hard drive, loading the same page > results in an "Security error accessing url" from my Adobe Flash > Player 9. I've even tried to use a straight HTTP post instead of a > webservice call, but to no avail. > > Now, I know that in order to access the data on the domain other > than the one my app is running on, Adobe Flash Player requires > crossdomain.xml file to be on the data server root. Yahoo indeed > hosts this file at http://quote.yahoo.com/crossdomain.xml, <http://quote.yahoo.com/crossdomain.xml,> but it > only has a few entries. I simply want to read company stock info > from publicly exposed service, but I see no way of adding the domain > name to their crossdomain file each time someone wants to read a > stock info. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Roman >
