Question

I’m developing a flash thingy that connects to the youtube api. The website that contains the flashthingy is developed locally on my computer.

I don’t konw why flash does this, but it doesn’t connect to anything on the real web. E.g. the youtube api. As soon as I deploy the project to a real server everything works fine.

Since I have a lot of dev still before me I’d love to test this stuff locally. Any idea what I have to do in order to get flash connected to real websites?

Thank you

Answer 1

All this is happening because of flash security sandbox.

go here:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html

and add your root development directory to trusted sites.

for example: D:/dev Then it will be working fine.

if you have more folders, then add them too.

p.s. of if you are using a newer version of flash player just open flash in browser and click right mouse button, then Global Settings…

UPDATE

This is how it looks from my localFiles in the browser:

• first call is made by HTML to download ge_flash_player.gif image
• second call is made from flash to googleAnalytics, which as you can see Resulted a HttpStatus 200.