Hi all,
I’m working on a Flash app that loads information from Rails, using
Flash’s Loadvars() method. This is working great, in all browsers but
Win/IE. I’m wondering if it has to do with some directory/security
sandbox bug in IE’s handling of Flash, coupled with Rail’s routing.
Below are some examples. Keep in mind that the .swf file is in the
/public directory. The data is coming from the ‘get_vars’ action in the
‘view’ controller.
The following Actionscript works in Firefox, Opera, the new IE beta,
etc:
data.load(’/view/get_vars’, data, ‘GET’);
And if I set up this route in Rails:
map.connect ‘get_vars’, :controller => ‘view’, :action => ‘get_vars’
This Actionscript works too:
data.load(’/get_vars’, data, ‘GET’);
Neither work in IE6.
However, this does work in IE6:
data.load(’/test.php’, data, ‘GET’);
Where test.php is just a PHP script in the /public directory.
Just for kicks, I tried this route:
map.connect ‘get_vars.txt’, :controller => ‘view’, :action => ‘get_vars’
Thinking that maybe IE/Flash was confused by what could have been a
directory path, but no dice.
Any ideas? Why does a plain text file or PHP file in /public work, but a
seemingly identical route not work?
Thanks!
Doug Pfeffer
For future reference, I solved this issue by writing a gateway script
that went and fetched the proper data. Very hacky.
While the data flow should have been: get_vars ----> Flash
It is now get_vars -----> get_vars.cgi ----> Flash
Lame, but it works.
Doug
Doug Pfeffer wrote:
Hi all,
I’m working on a Flash app that loads information from Rails, using
Flash’s Loadvars() method. This is working great, in all browsers but
Win/IE. I’m wondering if it has to do with some directory/security
sandbox bug in IE’s handling of Flash, coupled with Rail’s routing.
Below are some examples. Keep in mind that the .swf file is in the
/public directory. The data is coming from the ‘get_vars’ action in the
‘view’ controller.
The following Actionscript works in Firefox, Opera, the new IE beta,
etc:
data.load(’/view/get_vars’, data, ‘GET’);
And if I set up this route in Rails:
map.connect ‘get_vars’, :controller => ‘view’, :action => ‘get_vars’
This Actionscript works too:
data.load(’/get_vars’, data, ‘GET’);
Neither work in IE6.
However, this does work in IE6:
data.load(’/test.php’, data, ‘GET’);
Where test.php is just a PHP script in the /public directory.
Just for kicks, I tried this route:
map.connect ‘get_vars.txt’, :controller => ‘view’, :action => ‘get_vars’
Thinking that maybe IE/Flash was confused by what could have been a
directory path, but no dice.
Any ideas? Why does a plain text file or PHP file in /public work, but a
seemingly identical route not work?
Thanks!
Doug Pfeffer