[SWFObject] ExpressInstall, Macromedia & Adobe servers issue?

[Geoff Stearns]

you shouldn't need to... the macromedia url probably just redirects  
to the adobe.com file...

you can be pretty sure that if the file goes down you'll have plenty  
of bug reports sent to adobe and they'll fix it pretty quick... and  
if not, there's an error condition in the express install code that  
you can modify to tell your users to try again later.


On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Joseph Balderson wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Geoff.
>
> I wonder if there isn't some way to test, and use whatever domain is
> working? What if something happens with the file on the macromedia
> domain? Problem with testing is that the autoUpdater.swf file  
> appears to
> be on both domains, but only one of them works.
>
> Would there be a way to modify the as file script to see which
> autoUpdater.swf would actually work?
>
> Joseph
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> Geoff Stearns wrote:
>> 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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