[SWFObject] ExpressInstall, Macromedia & Adobe servers issue?

[Geoff Stearns]

when i did the swfobject2.0 update, i changed it to adobe.com  
briefly, but i found that i couldn't get it to work either..

ther's another line, the securty.allowdomain() call that you would  
need to change too, but when i changed that it still wouldn't work  
for me, so i put it back to macromedia.com.

i don't think i ever changed it to adobe in the older versions, so  
just change it back and use macromedia, or download the latest  
version again from the swfobject page.

or if you are feeling saucy, grab the new 2.0 prerelease version and  
test that out.



On Sep 16, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Joseph Balderson wrote:

> I'm new to this list, so apologize if this has been covered before,  
> but
> could not find a mention of it on the site blogs or the thread archive
> search.
>
> I'm running a site in Flash 7.0.19.0 as a test, and SWFObject is
> configured to accept only 7.0.63.0 or higher. Doing everything  
> according
> to the book, i.e. HTHML & AS implementation. At first I was puzzled
> because the ExpressInstall would not work at all, it would 'illegally'
> recognize the swf and play the content. I created a frame 'before' my
> loader and placed ExpressInstall there, and it now stopped the  
> timeline.
>
> But then I noticed that when I clicked the 'update' button, nothing
> would happen. I eventually tracked the problem down to the
> expressinstall.as file. One version worked, the other didn't. I ran a
> file diff on them, and found that the more older version I had used
> fpdownload.adobe.com and the recent version of SWFObject (v.1.4.4)  
> uses
> fpdownload.macromedia.com.
>
> Whenever I use the expressinstall.as file with  
> fpdownload.adobe.com, the
> autoUpdater.swf does not seem to load; pressing the 'update' button  
> (or
> calling ExpressInstall.init(); ) does not do anything. When I use the
> newer version which uses fpdownload.macromedia.com, it works fine. But
> when I type in
> "http://fpdownload.[company].com/pub/.../autoUpdater.swf", for both
> domains, the swf comes up (blank, but it comes up) -- so the file is
> there on the adobe server.
>
> Why does the adobe.com domain not work, when both domains have the  
> file
> present on their server? I thought both domains were supposed to work?
>
> And how is it I have two versions of the expressinstall.as file, (from
> different downloads at different times, uncustomized), and both  
> indicate
> they were updated 12-20-2005, both v.1.0, but they are not the same
> file, with the only significant difference being the domains?
>
> I've heard of other people having bizarre problems with  
> ExpressInstall,
> and I wonder for how many of those this is indeed the cause.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joseph
>
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