You can load foreign content, but you can't touch it. There are potential
security issues involving sniffing through images of charts and what not.
Normally you get around this using a proxy server
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.http://www.adobe.com/
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Hi Alex
Mm. ok... but if I were a bad guy wouldn't *I* just use a proxy
server? :-)
It seems a bit of a stretch, frankly, that allowing flash to read the
bitmap data constitutes a risk beyond that that simply rendering it
poses, but I guess arguing that point won't fix my problem anytime
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Hi Alex
Mm. ok... but if I were
access.
Tracy Spratt
Lariat Services
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Hi Alex
Mm. ok... but if I were a bad guy wouldn't *I* just use a proxy server? :-)
It seems a bit of a stretch, frankly, that allowing flash to read the bitmap
data constitutes a risk beyond that that simply rendering it poses, but I
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