How to distribute PPAPI Flash Player

Report · Feb 17, 2016

Hi,

Our Windows Application uses Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF3) to render web pages. The Web pages also contain the flash content. To display the flash content in CEF3, we need to install the PPAPI flash plugin. To install PPAPI plugin, player needs to manually open the link in the browser from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ and manually select the OS and PPAPI in second step and install it. We can not expect player can do all these steps. So we need better approach to install the PPAPI flash plugin at player windows systems.

1. Can we directly open a link where it detects the OS and download the corresponding flash installer and start installing it.

2. Can we keep copy of the installer [flashplayer20pp_ha_install.exe] at our web server and download from our web server and install it. [Will there be any licence issue for this aproach].

3. Any other solutions?

Report · Feb 18, 2016

Hi,

Flash player comes embedded with chrome browser.

You don't need to install PPAPI plugin.

Thanks

Report · Feb 18, 2016

@sridharkalla,

Can you provide the user agent string for CEF (or your application if it differs)? I can ask the team that maintains get.adobe.com/flashplayer if they can autodetect this case and provide PPAPI automatically.

Thanks,

Chris

Report · Feb 19, 2016

User agent I am getting from CEF is

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.16 Safari/537.36"

Report · Feb 19, 2016

Thank you. I've forwarded this along to the manager in charge of the get.adobe.com website and asked that our detection code be updated to properly detect this user agent string.

Report · Feb 29, 2016

Hi Chris,

Can you please update on this ticket. Also can you provide the direct URL to download the PPAPI flash installer exe [flashplayer20pp_ha_install.exe].

Report · Mar 01, 2016

Hello,

We don't allow deep linking (aka direct downloads to our installers.) I imagine three possible solutions:

1. You open a link to our standard download page within your application (assuming the browser detection works properly) and allow the user to download and install

2. You open the user's default web browser, navigate to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions and provide instructions to download the PPAPI installer

3. I can put you in touch with one of our biz dev folks and you can discuss further licensing options that might provide the option of including the binary in your application.

Let me know how you'd like to proceed.

Thanks,
Chris

Report · Mar 02, 2016

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. We can not expect our users will navigate to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions ‌and follow the instructions to select OS and the correct plugin. So we have following options which we would like to discuss with your dev folks.

1. Provide the direct link of PPAPI flash installer exe [flashplayer20pp_ha_install.exe] so that we download this installer and initiate the installation on the user systems.

2. We keep copy of the installer [flashplayer20pp_ha_install.exe] at our web server and download from our web server and initiate the installation on the user systems.

3. Include the flash plugin binaries along with our application .

Hope we can resolve this issue ASAP as we need to finalize this solution by this week.

Report · Mar 02, 2016

Please send me an email (ccampbel@adobe.com) and I'll put you in touch with our business developer.

Report · Feb 18, 2016

Sorry, I am not talking about Chrome browser. Our application has integrated with browser component (CEF3). CEF3 can not use the flash plugin which comes directly with the Chromium. For CEF we have to explicitly install the PPAPI flash plugin.