This sums up the problem, which YouTube could work around by reconfiguring their server to not compress watch web pages (which might not make them happy), or Microsoft can fix by redesigning their browser. Apparently there's no longer a way for Flash to insist on no compression, since addRequestHeader has been neutralized.
-Don http://blog.jasonnussbaum.com/?p=155 IE, Flash, Xml/LoadVars, and GZip Posted by jason on February 07th 2006 to General Can’t we all just get along? It seems that Flash and Internet Explorer have some communication issues. Namely, when a server returns GZipped data to IE for consumption in Flash, Flash don’t get no sugah. Rather, Flash never gets the data. Which is messed up. See this quote on the LoadVars page on LiveDocs (it’s buried in the comments, so I’m quoting it in full here to save you the time - I haven’t seen a response from MM/Adobe on the issue): drusunlimited said on Jun 16, 2005 at 7:18 AM: I have found a bug in Internet Explorer that affect flash: when a query is done to a server an the server response in content enconding:gzip, the explorer don´t communicate with the flash activex. I finally found a solution, changing the server settings in order of don´t use this content encoding mode. But the problem exists. Good luck. In all likelihood, this is an IE issue, not Flash, as Firefox has no such issues (of course, it’s a different player, one a ‘plugin’, one an active-x control, but I’ll give MM the benefit of the doubt). Anyone else out there encounter this? And, please tell me so, a method of dealing with it that doesn’t involve turning off compression on the server? _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
