A proxy xml file? This would allow your swf's to communicate with the outside world too right? Shaun _____
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: 12 March 2007 15:49 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Security error accessing url 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> ups.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. <http://quote.yahoo.com/crossdomain.xml,> 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 >
