yep, i have been doing url encoding, but i still get an invalid image format
On Sep 18, 1:17 pm, "Barry Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:09 PM, warmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to use Flash to simply load in an image returned by this > > query: > > >http://maps.google.com/staticmap?center=40.714728,-73.998672&zoom=14&;... > > > And it doesn't work, for whatever reason, because Google seems to > > block it. > > > So instead, I'd like to use a PHP proxy on my server, which would > > return the image and pass it off to Flash. > > > However...this isn't working either. I've tried this script: > > >http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:http://www.abdulqabiz.com/files/p... > > > And also the ones > > here:http://www.kylebrekke.com/wordpress/2008/bypassing-crossdomainxml-fil... > > > But it doesn't work! I get this: > > > proxy.php?url=http://maps.google.com/staticmap? > > center=40.714728,-73.998672&zoom=14&size=400x400&key=MAPS_API_KEY&mimeType=image/ > > gif" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. > > I take it that is a copy/paste error, and you really doing something like > > proxy.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaps.google.com%2Fstaticmap%3Fcenter%3D40.714728%2C-73.998672%26zoom%3D14%26size%3D400x400%26key%3DMAPS_API_KEY&mimeType=image/gif > > You need url encoding (or similar) to diffierentiate should the > parameters be for your (proxy) script or params for the maps api. > > (php will be helpful and do the url decoding on the '$_GET['url']' > variable for you. > > > > > Am I missing something here? Does Google block this as well? If so, > > why, but if not... what am I doing wrong here? > > -- > Barry > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
