Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only
thanks for your help Juan. so yeah the conclusion is this: FB doesn't want their video content served to non-facebook places(obviously). They check that via the referer prop in the header that is sent. In most browsers the referer is turned off by default, so it actually works. In IE the referer is turned on by default. When you call a fb vid directly with the non-fb referer it returns a 404. Doesn't look like there's a workaround(other than serving different vids to ie users!) - so close! Anyway, adding this in here for archival purposes and to say 'thanks' again for your help juan! On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Juan Pablo Califano califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com wrote: Very weird. As you have noticed, it seems facebook is not serving the file under some circumstances (it returns a 404 http error code) I could make it fail consistently if: 1) The referer is set and is in a non facebook domain AND 2) The user agent is IE. I got the request to work if I set the referer to http://www.facebook.com/and leaving the user-agent as IE, for instance. It also worked, if I kept the original referer but used the same user-agent as Chrome: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.62 Safari/534.3 I'm not sure if there's any work around from Actionscript, I'm afraid, as you have very limited control over the request headers sent to the server. I'm pretty sure you just can't change the user-agent or the referer. The only alternative I can think of is proxying your request through some server you control. But that of course negates the benefits of using facebook's CDN infrastructure and for your server traffic and load it would be worse that just hosting the video yourself in the first place. I'm sorry this isn't of much help, but I can think of any other work around. Let us know if you find something else. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/21 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com thanks. I think the problem has been isolated, on the URLRequest, the response is as follows: http://pastebin.com/AmwCtAcD in there, the 'referer' param is causing the file to 404 - if we remove it then the video loads correctly. anyone have any idea on how to either set that param(not possible i think) or else modify it once it's loaded before it's processed? thanks! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Juan Pablo Califano califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com wrote: I've had experienced problems with Facebook Connect on IE only. In my case, the user wouldn't even be able to log in, so I'm not sure this is the same problem you're experiencing. But anyway, maybe it's worth checking this: http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-url http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-url Basically, I set explicitly the channelUrl on initialization, like in the example and put the channel.html file at the same level that the xd_receiver.html file that is used for working around JS cross-domain issues. And it solved the problem. If I recall correctly, this custom channel url workaround is necessary only if your app isn't loaded within FB, as opposed to an external site that just uses Facebook Connect. (Or was it the other way around?) Hope this helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/20 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only
thanks. I think the problem has been isolated, on the URLRequest, the response is as follows: http://pastebin.com/AmwCtAcD in there, the 'referer' param is causing the file to 404 - if we remove it then the video loads correctly. anyone have any idea on how to either set that param(not possible i think) or else modify it once it's loaded before it's processed? thanks! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Juan Pablo Califano califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com wrote: I've had experienced problems with Facebook Connect on IE only. In my case, the user wouldn't even be able to log in, so I'm not sure this is the same problem you're experiencing. But anyway, maybe it's worth checking this: http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-url http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-urlBasically, I set explicitly the channelUrl on initialization, like in the example and put the channel.html file at the same level that the xd_receiver.html file that is used for working around JS cross-domain issues. And it solved the problem. If I recall correctly, this custom channel url workaround is necessary only if your app isn't loaded within FB, as opposed to an external site that just uses Facebook Connect. (Or was it the other way around?) Hope this helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/20 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only
Very weird. As you have noticed, it seems facebook is not serving the file under some circumstances (it returns a 404 http error code) I could make it fail consistently if: 1) The referer is set and is in a non facebook domain AND 2) The user agent is IE. I got the request to work if I set the referer to http://www.facebook.com/and leaving the user-agent as IE, for instance. It also worked, if I kept the original referer but used the same user-agent as Chrome: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.62 Safari/534.3 I'm not sure if there's any work around from Actionscript, I'm afraid, as you have very limited control over the request headers sent to the server. I'm pretty sure you just can't change the user-agent or the referer. The only alternative I can think of is proxying your request through some server you control. But that of course negates the benefits of using facebook's CDN infrastructure and for your server traffic and load it would be worse that just hosting the video yourself in the first place. I'm sorry this isn't of much help, but I can think of any other work around. Let us know if you find something else. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/21 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com thanks. I think the problem has been isolated, on the URLRequest, the response is as follows: http://pastebin.com/AmwCtAcD in there, the 'referer' param is causing the file to 404 - if we remove it then the video loads correctly. anyone have any idea on how to either set that param(not possible i think) or else modify it once it's loaded before it's processed? thanks! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Juan Pablo Califano califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com wrote: I've had experienced problems with Facebook Connect on IE only. In my case, the user wouldn't even be able to log in, so I'm not sure this is the same problem you're experiencing. But anyway, maybe it's worth checking this: http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-url http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-url Basically, I set explicitly the channelUrl on initialization, like in the example and put the channel.html file at the same level that the xd_receiver.html file that is used for working around JS cross-domain issues. And it solved the problem. If I recall correctly, this custom channel url workaround is necessary only if your app isn't loaded within FB, as opposed to an external site that just uses Facebook Connect. (Or was it the other way around?) Hope this helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/20 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only
hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flv on fb servers not loading in ie only
I've had experienced problems with Facebook Connect on IE only. In my case, the user wouldn't even be able to log in, so I'm not sure this is the same problem you're experiencing. But anyway, maybe it's worth checking this: http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-url http://wiki.github.com/facebook/connect-js/custom-channel-urlBasically, I set explicitly the channelUrl on initialization, like in the example and put the channel.html file at the same level that the xd_receiver.html file that is used for working around JS cross-domain issues. And it solved the problem. If I recall correctly, this custom channel url workaround is necessary only if your app isn't loaded within FB, as opposed to an external site that just uses Facebook Connect. (Or was it the other way around?) Hope this helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/9/20 jared stanley jared.stan...@gmail.com hey - experiencing a weird bug here: we have a video uploaded onto facebook's servers - we then load it into flash. it's working fine on all browsers except for ie. it works fine when the video is local or on any other server. anyone have any insights? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
