loadVariables to load variables

A set of scripts was developed in pre-MX env and worked fine. In part, some used loadVariables(url, target,method) action to receive a response from that URL and load variables in the target (sorry for the tautology >))

A typical response from the URL would be

"var1=value1\&var2=value2"  string  preceded by a pseudoheader (a must!)  newline "\n"

That response would set _root.var1 to value1 etc in the clip root, for example.

In Player9 (and may be even earlier) it stopped working. The player does NOT, evidently, parse the response to set variables as instructed.

Any thought or idea, please?

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