[flexcoders] Re: Socket Connection to Port 80 on Serving Host

2007-05-30 Thread lieut_data
Hi Paul, I'm packet sniffing my .swf as it runs: SENT GET /crossdomain.xml HTTP/1.1 Host: my_host_name User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Accept:

[flexcoders] Re: Socket Connection to Port 80 on Serving Host

2007-05-30 Thread lieut_data
Hi Jobe, There are no stupid questions :D I have no socket server running on port 80 -- simply a custom built http server. What I want to do is use the Sockets functionality built into Flash to communicate over port 80 with my web server. (You could think of this as building a web browser inside

[flexcoders] Re: Socket Connection to Port 80 on Serving Host

2007-05-30 Thread lieut_data
Essentially, the problem boils down to this: If you want to connect to a socket on a different host than the one from which the connecting SWF file was served, or if you want to connect to a port lower than 1024 on any host, you must obtain an xmlsocket: policy file from the host to which you are

[flexcoders] Re: Disabling Selectable Text for a ComboBox

2007-05-17 Thread lieut_data
And yet another workaround, IMHO cleaner, is to set the editable = false immediately after setting enabled = false in actionscript. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another workaround is to nest the ComboBox in a Canvas container and then