Oops, I lied a bit. The content type is hard-coded. But you
can update that
to suit your needs (and I believe PHP comes with automatic
MIME type
detection).
Regards,
Patrick Bay
BAY NEW MEDIA
"Patrick Bay" <patrick@baynewmedia.com> wrote in
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> Hi RobDan75,
>
> The short answer is, no. If your application is making
calls across
> domains, a crossdomain XML file will always be
requested. If it's not
> there or doesn't allow communication, Flash will stop
trying to
> communicate with that server. It would be a very severe
security violation
> (in many respects) for Adobe to allow this sort of
thing. That being said,
> if you have access to your own server, you can create a
secondary proxy
> that will shuttle data to and from the target proxy.
Basically, it simply
> acts to send data to/from Flash and the target server.
Using PHP, simple
> HTTP requests are very simple to carry out. Here's a
script I used on an
> older project that did just that:
>
> <?
> if (isset($_POST['address'])) {
> $address=$_POST['address'];
> $proxyData=file_get_contents($address);
> $fileSize=strlen($proxyData);
> header('Content-Type: text/html');
> header("Content-Length: " .$fileSize);
> header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
> header ("Date: ".date("r"));
> header("Expires: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT");
> header("Host: ".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
> header("Server: Proxy Script v1.0");
> echo ($proxyData);
> } else {
> echo ('You didn\'t include the data in the "address"
variable.');
> }//else
> ?>
>
> Note that Flash needs to send an "address" POST variable
telling the
> script the address to load from. You can update this to
GET if you
> want...it can be used to test via the browser. This just
makes it a bit
> more difficult to abuse. The script automatically
detects MIME type so you
> can use this to transport any type of data (video, text,
audio, etc.)
>
> Regards,
> Patrick Bay
> BAY NEW MEDIA
>
> "RobDan75" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in
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> news:fn9p8h$m4t$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>> Is there any possibility to use HTTP tunneling(that
needs to connect to a
>> proxy
>> in some cases) to go through the proxy without the
need of the
>> crossdomain.xml?
>> In most cases the proxy is on a different server and
because of this the
>> flash(embedded into html) asks for the
crossdomain.xml first, if it can't
>> be
>> downloaded then it won't try to communicate with the
proxy and can't
>> connect to
>> the target.
>>
>
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