Flash Remoting Problems

[dannyst]

We are building a flash solution that needs to be tightly integrated with an already robust and fully developed .net environment.

We are using flash remoting to connect to the servers, and have run into an extremely unusual problem.

We built a functional solution that would succesfully access the .net environment as we need. Our connection addresses were all using localhost at that time.

var zipService:Service = new Service("http://localhost:80/project/Gateway.aspx",null,"SWFGateway.FlashLocations",null, null);
var pcZipCall:PendingCall = zipService.getStoreByZip(zip);

var pcZipCall:PendingCall = zipService.getStoreByZip(zip);

var pcZipCall.responder = new RelayResponder(_root, "getStoreByZip_Result","getStoreByZip_Status");


So as long as the address was at localhost and we were runing from localhost, it worked just fine.

However if we exchange localhost with the computer's network name, or its ip address then it breaks.


//obviously not the real ip address there
//we tried both the ip address and the name of the computer
var zipService:Service = new Service("http://1.1.1.1:80/project/Gateway.aspx",null,"SWFGateway.FlashLocations",null, null);

var pcZipCall:PendingCall = zipService.getStoreByZip(zip);

pcZipCall.responder = new RelayResponder(_root, "getStoreByZip_Result","getStoreByZip_Status");


Our IT admin people even tried setting up a web page in IIS for that computer and put the proper setups there. We could then browse to the default.aspx page in our browser, but flash remoting wouldn't work still.

We have been trying to figure this problem out now for a few days. So in a nutshel our flash remoting works only if our gateway is on localhost, and we are running on the same machine. The minute we change localhost to the ip address or computer name for that same machine, it breaks no matter where you run it.

Anybody know how to fix this?

[tg]

have you bought the .net remoting software from macromedia and installed it on your servers? only the developers (single user licence) is free.

[dannyst]

Yeah we have bought the whole deal, and the IT guy is sure that it is installed properly. It seems that it has to do with editing a cfg file to make it work for us.

So I don't really know the details, but it was something to do with editing
frconfig.txt in order for its licensing information to reflect the proper set up for it to work.

[madgett]

Have you tried the ? after the url: http://1.1.1.1:80/project/Gateway.aspx?

[powerobject]

This may have something to do with cross-domain policies. Localhost is not equivalent to the IP Address and http://www.yahoo.com may not be equivalent http://yahoo.com so you may have to create a cross-domain-policy file:

http://moock.org/asdg/technotes/crossDomainPolicyFiles

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