Question

This is a script that pulls data from a text feed and displays the Stock value from within that feed. It works just fine when I test the movie but when I try to publish it in a web page it does not display the live data in IE or Chrome. I’m just using the default publish options and I’m also trying to use it on a Digital Signage player that is essentially rendering a web page in IE.

import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);

function onLoaded(e:Event):void{
    var rawRSS:String = e.target.data;
    var pattern:RegExp = /<TD.*?TD>/sg; 
    var pieces:Array = rawRSS.match(pattern);   
    var CH = pieces[2].split(">");
    var CHR = CH[1].split("<");
    var CHRW:String = String(CHR[0]);
    var CHRWT:String = CHRW.substr(0,5);

    stock_price.text = CHRWT;

    var loc:int = pieces[4].indexOf("+",0);
    var gain:String = String(pieces[4].charAt(loc));
    //trace(gain);

    if (gain == "+"){
        stock_price.textColor = 0x00CC33;
    }
    else {
        stock_price.textColor = 0xFF0000;
    }

}

loader.load(new URLRequest("http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NasdaqRSS.aspx?data=quotes&symbol=CHRW"));

Answer 1

If you run your swf from a web server, it is not allowed to fetch data from another domain, unless that domain allows it in a crossdomain.xml file, and Nasdaq’s doesn’t.