Bill: Thank for the post.
I shouldn't have been so flippant in the earlier post. Obviously what I need is more concrete exampleas of how to do this. My language of choice is ASP.NET, preferably VB. Are there any examples of how to setup a proxy server? If the proxy server approach is so easy to accomplish why doesn't yahoo allow full access via crossdomain.xml? This application is an intranet app for about 40 users. --- In [email protected], "bill_reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "aceoohay" <pauls@> wrote: > > > > The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. > > > > Would you be so kind as to share a bit more information with the > > unwashed masses? > > > > Paul > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <aharui@> wrote: > > > > > > The workaround is a proxy server. > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Paul,here's a simple proxy script example in php: > > <?php > > if(isset($_GET['file'])) { > // Use preg_match to do simple validation on the url, > // session, etc... Optional of course. > if(preg_match("INSERT PATTERN HERE", $_GET['file'])) { > readfile($_GET['file']); > } > } > ?> > > > In flex, the url to the yahoo image would then be something like: > http://localhost/some_proxy_script.php? > file=http://www.yahoo.com/somefile.jpg > > > Credit goes to Doug McCune. >
