It doesn't provide any benefit to you, it provides benefit to the server owner. Once all of your clients are hammering your server to get to the proxy to the remote-server, then you have the first chokepoint for traffic instead of the remote-server owner who may or may not have intended to allow that much extra traffic.
The security rules are also intended to make sure we don't become the ultimate spyware and virus development platform. If we did, everyone would be afraid to download the player and/or run these applications. If you can find a way to spoof the crossdomain.xml from a remote server, please let us know. -Alex ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul DeCoursey Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Security error accessing url I'm probably in the minority here but I think that is dumb. I don't see what that accomplishes since it is so easy to build a proxy. And I haven't' really tried but I can imagine it very easy to counterfeit a crossdomain.xml file. This sounds to me like just another hoop to jump through that doesn't really provide any real benefit to us. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ <http://www.crossdomainxml.org/> > > > > A proxy is a good long term solution. > > > > Tracy > >
