On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Taylor Mathewson <taylor.mathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I found a possible problem and a workaround, and I just want to put it up > here in case anyone else encounters a similar problem. > > I have a Flex3 element embedded in a page. It would load, but it wouldn't > run. We stripped it down to a very simple app (hello world), but it still > wouldn't run. > > Right clicking on the flash element showed the problem: the "Play" item was > unchecked on the flash player context menu. Selecting it would run the flex > piece as expected, but reloading the page, it would again not play. > > Accessing the swf directly yielded strange results. > > Going through a standard path (e.g. > http://localhost:8080/appName/swf/myFlex.swf) worked fine but going through > Tapestry's context (e.g. > http://localhost:8080/appName/assets/ctx/631103cab3b12068/swf/myFlex.swf) > would load the component but not play it. > > This offers with one option; link to all flash components directly. > However, the tapestry context urls present a nice solution to avoiding > cached older versions of flash elements, without forcing a client to > re-download on every view. > > The other solution I found was to disable GZIP on > application/x-shockwave-flash by contributing that content type to the > responsecompressionanalyzer
Could a server in between Tapestry and the client be re-gzipping or otherwise corrupting the bytestream? In any case, I suspect adding flash as a non-compressable type would be a good idea; a JIRA issue would be appreciated. > > I'm not sure why this happens, and it seems not to happen with > flash-authored pieces, as opposed to flex-authored, even when they are > published with the same player version etc... and why it happens only in the > tapestry context path (according to LiveHTTP, both had gzip compression, but > the tapestry context had a content-length about 25 bytes higher). > > Just hoping to save others the couple hours of "wtf" I just went through. > > Thanks, > Taylor > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
