[Flashcoders] should this work?

2007-02-13 Thread Lance Massey
I have an application on my computer which is simply a socket listening for a connection on 127.0.0.1 port 5824. So, in AS3 I created a swf with the following code var sock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket(); sock.connect(127.0.0.1,5824); and uploaded it to my server. Now, when I go to the web

Re: [Flashcoders] should this work?

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
It would seem to be alright. If the computer opening the socket is accepting messages from Flash, why would the FlashPlayer care about that. It can not possibly tell if the person who wrote the server application at the other end of the socket has compromised the server The server

Re: [Flashcoders] should this work?

2007-02-13 Thread Lance Massey
COOL!! On Feb 13, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: It would seem to be alright. If the computer opening the socket is accepting messages from Flash, why would the FlashPlayer care about that. It can not possibly tell if the person who wrote the server application at the other end of