crossdomain.xml or?

[ccEikou]

I have a rss reader builded and its working perfectly offline, it gets all the rss xml i want.

now i put the site online to test out , now it seems that nothing much happening, except the rss feed from cnn itself is working, rest just dont....

I dont get any errors or whatsoever, just nothing is loaded when i clicking on it.

now have been reseacrching and come across on the crossdomain policies >< which is kinda new to me..

I loaded it up, but still nothing happening...

i have this crossdomain.xml made.

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

<cross-domain-policy>

<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all" />

<allow-access-from domain="http://www.norea.nl/Norea/Metanavigatie/RSS" />

</cross-domain-policy>

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my questions are follows:

1. Is this the solution for me? or is it something else that bugs me?

2. do I put this on my root folder on the server or can I place it under the FOlder where the actual SWF file is located?

3. do i put on in the allow-access-from domain     http://www.norea.nl/Norea/Metanavigatie/RSS/36846 or

                                                                     feed://www.norea.nl/Norea/Metanavigatie/RSS/36846 or

                                                                     http://www.norea.nl or

                                                                     http://www.norea.nl/Norea/Metanavigatie/RSS

am using ac3 - player 10 - cs4 prof

thanks in advance!

[Philter]

The crossdomain.xml file needs to go on the domain that's hosting the RSS feed (ie, norea.nl), not the domain that's hosting the swf.  So if you have 2 domains:

www.a.com - hosting the RSS feed

www.b.com - hosting the swf

The the crossdomain.xml file goes on www.a.com and would look like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

<cross-domain-policy>

<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all" />

<allow-access-from domain="http://www.b.com" />

</cross-domain-policy>

or, if you wanted to allow any domain to access the RSS feed, do this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

<cross-domain-policy>

<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all" />

<allow-access-from domain="*" />

</cross-domain-policy>

[ccEikou]

Thanks for the clear response.

so there is no way they will/might put the crossdomain.xml file on their server ....

is there any other way the online swf (rss reader) still can read in the rss xml files there?

sniff

[Philter · Accepted solution]

The common workaround is to use a server side proxy file that sits on the same server as the swf, to grab the data and pull it into Flash.  Here is an example:

http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2007/05/31/php-proxy-script-for-cross-domain-requests/

[ccEikou]

Thanks Philter!

Got it all and running now.

For those who stumbling at the same problem, here is the quickest solution

1. get the proxy.php file and upload it to your webserver

2. setup in actionscript as3 the url destination for the xml

   example:   myRssList.addItem( { label: "CNN Business" , data: "http://localhost/RSS/proxy.php?url=http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_business.rss" } );

   // the indicated highlight is an example where your proxy.php is located on the site. In your cause would be http://yourdomain.com/proxy.php?url=

Thanks again for the help : ) Took me several hours to figure out, hope this will save others the time looking : )

cya around