It has nothing to do with selling server licenses. It is so when you run the Flash player in a browser inside your Firewall, that content doesnt snoop the servers inside your firewall, and send the data outside.
Here is a good write up on it: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/why-crossdomainxml-is-a- good-thing mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:20 AM, Aral Balkan wrote: > Hi Alias, > > I've never fully understood the need for the crossdomain policy > file. I > think it was Sho who tried to explain it to me in a very technical > manner but either I'm really thick (definite possibility) or I just > don't get the value of something where you essentially need to disable > the security via a crossdomain.xml file to get something like web > services to work without the need of a proxy. It seems to me to be a > artificial restriction aimed at selling more server licenses. It > also is > a major handicap for Flash when compared to Java and rules out the > creation of a whole host of applications in Flash (like a POP3/IMAP > email reader that can check email from any domain.) "Sure it'll work, > just ask your ISP to put a crossdomain.xml file in their root... Ummm, > what?" > > All that said, I'm personally worried about the impact of several, > incompatible, Flash player implementations and how that will affect > the > reputation of the Flash Platform. Currently, Flash is pretty much a > write-once, run-anywhere platform and that's one of its (if not its > greatest) unique selling point. (Maintaining state on the client was > too, but "AJAX" apps can do that too now.) I'm worried that competing > players will confuse developers and users alike. I'm even worried > about > the increasing rate of change in the release of Macromedia Players, > especially the pre-release ones (8, followed a few months later by > alpha > 8.5, beta 8.5?, 8.5?, etc.) I believe that *stability* in the > player is > very important. > > Aral > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > osflash@osflash.org > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
