[SWFObject] ExpressInstall, Macromedia & Adobe servers issue?

[Joseph Balderson]

Okay, I get what you're saying: don't worry about it. So I won't.

So what's this v.2 you're working on, and how's it different from v.1.4.4?
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Geoff Stearns wrote:
> 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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>> Joseph Balderson, Flash Developer & RIA Specialist
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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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