Flash Objects - What can they access?
Flash Objects - What can they access?
If you embed an SWF file into your html page, what if anything can the flash object glean from the site / page it is hosted on or the user that may click on the object?
Thanks,
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
You could of course run Helix or Adobe's Media Server to provide server side access for ActionScript in Flash 'movies'.
Chris.
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
A lender has provided this months banner advert as a flash SWF, and I am concerned regarding what they might be able to leach from our site and our members via the flash object.
So you are saying allowing 3rd party flash objects on your site is like allowing them to have their own JavaScript library embedded and all the functionality that goes with it.
Basically a massive and unacceptable security risk?
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
That would depend on the visitor's browser setting and what "flash objects" are allowed to do, from a server point of view it has little on no implications, as Flash is 100% a client side and other than the URL it was loaded from has no information at all.
Chris.
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
Chris.
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
Chris.
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
Well that's to be discussed in depth, it's a bit of a bone of contention, last thing you want to do is provide someone who spends a lot of money on advertising with you, a report that shows only 2 clicks that week, they might stop spending money with you, better to not have stats from our perspective than bad ones
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
Chris.
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RE: Flash Objects - What can they access?
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