Question

I have a xml file used by a swf to read and display information, but I would like to protect it from viewing the raw file, but keep swf access to view info.

Is there a way to do this, maybe php, javascript?…

Answer 1

In my opinion any thing that goes to a browser can be hijacked. What your strategy should be is to make it harder to do. Here are possible cases:

• To protect your data from being sniffed on the wire use SSL (“https://”) for you web service
• Implement application authentication like 2-legged OAuth. This will give you a more granular control over what apps accessing your service.