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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:55:09+00:00

I am getting news from Yahoo using an RSS feed, using: XML.load(http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/topstories) Yea this

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I am getting news from Yahoo using an RSS feed, using:

XML.load('http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/topstories')

Yea this is legal and all, and although it works perfectly when my SWF is offline — it shows a security error, but I allow my D drive ‘domain’ in the Adobe Security Panel.

But as soon as I upload it to my server, and test it online:

  • In Firefox3 the data fails to load, giving me a message on the status bar ‘Transferring data from finance.yahoo.com’

  • In InternetExplorer7 it fails silently with no message or warning.

Whats happening? I’ve even put a crossdomain.xml file with a * wildcard (allowing all domains).

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  1. Seems like you need a subdomain at Yahoo to access this.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/crossdomain.xml

    <cross-domain-policy>     <allow-access-from domain='*.yahoo.com'/>     <allow-access-from domain='us.js2.yimg.com'/> </cross-domain-policy>

    A quick walk-around is to set up a proxy-script on your own server. There’s a lot of examples out there. Haven’t tried this but the guy wrote it for the same reason as you :

    http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/general/php_proxy_script_for.php

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