rachke1, One thing I have noticed as of today is if you include certain other GET parameters in the url pointing to your swf, such as:
http://ikon-pro.konsole.net:8080/mapstest/GoogleMapsTest.swf?someparam=test Your maps will break... How dumb is this? Lets investigate: So I've ran some tests and provided the ServiceCapture request information below: 1) I provide no key in my flex code, which requires that it be specified in the URL as a GET parameter. If I load my swf without specifying the key as a GET parameter, the maps do not load, stating: Initialization Failed, Please specify an API key... ServiceCapture shows this in the request: URL: http://ikon-pro.konsole.net/mapstest/GoogleMapsTest.swf ServiceCapture shows: GET /mapstest/GoogleMapsTest.swf HTTP/1.1 Apparently, no call is even made to googles API key checking service (according to ServiceCapture no request is made to maps.googleapis.com/ mapsapi/publicapi) ? I am not sure how this is possible given that we see a message from google indicating that no key was provided. 2) I include a key as a GET parameter. The maps load fine and ServiceCapture shows a successful request to googles API key checking service: URL: http://ikon-pro.konsole.net/mapstest/GoogleMapsTest.swf?key=MY_SITE_KEY ServiceCapture Request: GET /mapsapi/publicapi?file=flashapi&url=http%3A%2F%2Fikon- pro.konsole.net%2Fmapstest%2FGoogleMapsTest.swf%3Fkey%3DMY SITE KEY&key=MY_SITE_KEY&v=1.7 HTTP/1.1 >From this I conclude that the google flash api takes user specified parameters passed in the URL: GoogleMapsTest.swf%3Fkey%3DMY SITE KEY Then constructs a validation parameter set, appending its own further required params: &key=MY_SITE_KEY&v=1.7 And passes the whole string for validation: GoogleMapsTest.swf%3Fkey%3DMY SITE KEY&key=MY_SITE_KEY&v=1.7 3) So I test this by adding both a key parameter and my own parameter: URL: GET /mapstest/GoogleMapsTest.swf? someparam=test&key=ABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA HTTP/1.1 ServiceCapture Request shows: GET /mapsapi/publicapi?file=flashapi&url=http%3A%2F%2Fikon- pro.konsole.net%2Fmapstest%2FGoogleMapsTest.swf%3Fsomeparam%3Dtest %26key %3DABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA&key=ABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA&v=1.7 HTTP/1.1 So some surprises here... notably that the additional parameter that I tested with (someparam=test or GoogleMapsTest.swf%3Fsomeparam%3Dtest) did NOT get included in the appended request to the validation routine (&key=ABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA&v=1.7). This is good. 4) So now I test using the additional parameter that my real application is to use (client=test) URL: http://ikon-pro.konsole.net/mapstest/GoogleMapsTest.swf?client=test&key=ABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA ServiceCapture Request shows: GET /mapsapi/publicapi?file=flashapi&url=http%3A%2F%2Fikon- pro.konsole.net%2Fmapstest%2FGoogleMapsTest.swf%3Fclient%3Dtest%26key %3DABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA&key=ABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA&client=test&v=1.7 HTTP/ Again, this surprised me because the additional parameter named 'client' (GoogleMapsTest.swf%3Fclient%3Dtest) caused maps to break. We see in the service capture output above that this particular parameter DOES get included in the appended parameters that are used to validate the API key: key=ABQIAAAAbKWTxWWmuSsChdh06caoVRQLjNZSQa9WVil0eQ566selu5bxSRQW5edanTVpXaOGM3ewlCr-35uiNA&client=test&v=1.7 (note client=test is included here, where as someparam=test in our previous example was not). Conclusion: There are reserved parameter keywords used by the google api. If you try to use any of these keywords as custom parameters in your own application, it will break your google maps API key validation routine, thus breaking your maps. Regards, Matthew On Oct 22, 8:30 am, rachke1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I have developed an application with Flex Builder 3. > On my PC locally it works perfect. > When I deploy it on tomcat WebServer I get: > Please Check the API key > and network availability. > I do have a crossdmomain.xml file on the server. > Checked the Api Google Key, its OK. > > I know that this server is OK because I do connect with the > HTTPService component from a local Flex application, something is > missing for Google Maps only. > > What am I missing? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
