RE: Path problem

You could have flash call a CFM page to Load the image and the CFM page could use a CFContent tag to stream a file from another location. This will make it not-secure, but Remember Flash is client-side so it can only access things via URLs (as far as I know)... Unless you get into more Flex

RE: Path problem

Ben, that's a good idea, and I think I can make that work. Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Path problem You could have flash call a CFM page to Load the image and the CFM page

RE: Path problem

I looking to use a flash app to display images which are read from an XML file (slideshowpro) in a password protected admin area of the site. The app requires that the path to each image be pointed as an absolute URL (for example: http://www.somesite.com/images/image1.jpg

RE: Path problem

Indeed browsing directly did work. So I must be missing something inside the flash widget. Thanks for your insight, Dave. Thanks, Mark Flash, like your browser, has no ability to access files on your web server unless those files have valid URLs. What happens if you try to resolve those URLs