[SWFObject] flashvars somtimes fail to be passed in the first time a page loads

[Brooks Andrus]

Has anyone had an issue where the flashvars sometimes are not being passed
in the first time a page loads (using swfobject of course). I'm getting
intermittent reports from users who have to refresh their browsers one time
before the swf content will play back. This problem is not consistent and
appears to vary from machine to machine and webserver to webserver. Here's
an example:

 

1)       a users creates some content that uses swfobject and uploads to
their webserver. My laptop consistently will load the page on the first
request, but the content hangs until I refresh the browser. All subsequent
loads work fine, until the cache is cleared and a new request is submitted.
However, my desktop pc does not have this same issue with the file served
from the same webserver.

2)       After fishing the files in question out of my browser cache and
uploading them to my own webserver, neither my laptop nor desktop have
difficulties playing back the files when they are first requested.

 

In trying to debug this problem, I've noticed that when files fail to load
for the first time, a preloader swf file and an xml file are always missing
from the browser cache. The names of these files are passed into the swf
file embedded with swfobject via flashvars. Without either of these files
nothing displays (as is too be expected). This appears to be a timing issue,
but I'm so far unable to replicate the issue on any of the webservers I have
access to, so its tough to trace the values of the flashvars that are
supposed to be set with swfobject. 

 

Here's the link to a file that seems to consistently give users difficulty:

http://www.newviewnetworks.com/nvnhome/blog/client/demos/red5_0.4.1_NewApp/r
ed5_0.4.1_NewApp.html

 

You most likely will be facing a blank white screen until you launch the
sucker for a second time. However subsequent attempts will work perfectly
until you decide to clear your cache.

 

Any thoughts or advice on this would be greatly appreciated (I'm not ruling
out a bug in my code, but the inconsistent behavior in conjunction with my
inability to find where my script might be going off into the weeds, leads
me to this forum).

 

Regards,

 

Brooks 

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