Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-27 Thread Ian Thomas
Clark, That's because www.fred.com need not point to the same server as fred.com. At all. They can be routed to totally different machines. Cheers, Ian On 1/27/06, clark slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's obviously no question about the value of the security sandbox and > the cross

Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-27 Thread clark slater
There's obviously no question about the value of the security sandbox and the crossdomain policy control. The issue for me is that 'www.' should not be considered a subdomain. This is inexcusable and will catch out a lot of people, particularly given the dreadful documentation. Clark On 1/27/06,

Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-27 Thread ryanm
I don't see upside. It just sucks. The upside is that it keeps people from stealing your Flash content. It lets you explicitly state who is allowed to consume your Flash content, which is a good thing as long as there is an easy way to allow more access, which there is. Look up "crossdomai

Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-27 Thread Josh Trout
nmentor.com vs http://animationmentor.com > > I am looking for an ActionScript GURU. Any takers? If so email me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Rich Rodecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:59 PM

RE: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-27 Thread Bennie Boone
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:59 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model i believe thats been around since flash 7...can't load data from different subdomains. I wish they could have excluded www. from counting as a differetn

Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-26 Thread Josh Trout
It's very easy for legitimate sites to get around this limitation by using a crossdomain.xml file. That lets you set up more complex rules (such as only allowing www subdomains or just *.yourdomain.com and *.yourotherdomain.com) to make your sandbox even bigger. You don't even have to modify the

Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-26 Thread Rich Rodecker
i believe thats been around since flash 7...can't load data from different subdomains. I wish they could have excluded www. from counting as a differetn subdomain, but this is one case where i really dont mind the extra security, it's kind of needed if flash is going to be taken seriously by the c

Re: [Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-26 Thread David Rorex
possible security upside: hacker.freedns.com can't make calls to randomguy.freedns.com ? (where freedns.com is a site that lets users buy / get free subdomains) -David R On 1/26/06, clark slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was totally *disgusted* to find out that our site was failing to mak

[Flashcoders] Gotcha: F8 Security Model

2006-01-26 Thread clark slater
I was totally *disgusted* to find out that our site was failing to make remoting calls when loaded via http://bayinteractive.com instead of http://www.bayinteractive.com Sure enough FP8 security sandbox at work, because the remoting calls were using an absolute path to the gateway instead of a rel