I wish to set up a SSL connection for a Web page that has a Flex application inside it.
The only things is that the swf is about 2mb and I am really worried about performance. Do you have any advice?
If you use RSL to externalize parts of the Flex framework or assets into other SWFs, which can be a godsend for large Flex projects, please test carefully in as wide a range of browsers as possible (not just your browsers but get some colleagues or friends to take a look). I've seen odd errors and behaviors from Flex applications deployed in this manner, where the externalized SWFs don't load, etc.
Again, RSLs can be a good choice and, when used properly, significantly reduce the size of your SWFs, but your users still have to download those SWFs the first time they use the application (they're cached after that -- just like your 2MB SWF will be cached, so this can sort of negate some, not all, benefits of the RSLs).
As for performance, in general a 2MB Flex application isn't that huge, I don't think and, once it's downloaded, it's 'local' to the users browser, so no issue there. The bigger performance issue with SSL is what type and how much data are you moving to and from the application?
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