swf and referring domain

Question

Is there a way to find the domain of the page that loads my
swf. For example, someone embeds an swf served from my server on
their www.myspace.com page. Is there is way for me to determine
that the request is coming from myspace.com at runtime?

gort_the_destroyer · Answer

Unfortunately I cannot use server side scripting here to get the referring domain. I was hoping there was a method for getting it from the flash player. I figure the player must know the referring domain as it is able to block or grant access with the allowscriptaccess parameter.
The closest I've gotten to my goal is writing a javascript function on the fly that writes the referring domain into the swf. Like this: getURL("javascript:document.mySWF.SetVariable('referringDomain',document.loc
ation.host)");
Unfortunately this method interrupts the page rendering in IE so I can't use this either. Anyone have any other ideas, even if it is AS 3, I'd love to hear it.

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