Sux. I have two ideas, only one of which I know how to implement: a) An alert that says "This application works best in any browser _other_than_ Internet Explorer"
b) Call out to Javascript, let it load the page you want to scrape in to a hidden iframe, grovel the page, and send the url back to Flash. Or three ideas: c) Campaign for YouTube to provide the API you really want. On 2006-09-27, at 06:24 EDT, Don Hopkins wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
