Comments on: Flash Player 10 Surprise: Error #2176

By: Troy Gilbert

Troy Gilbert — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:36:37 +0000

Stupid sandbox security. Stupid.

Thanks to this blog post (and more importantly, the comments suggesting to change filename to fname in multi-part uploads) it was an easy fix.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:29:57 +0000

Well that took a few days, but I got it. base64 encode the byte array to a string. Post the string along, base64_decode(), fwrite() (in the event of PHP) and ta da! Perhaps not the most secure…Isn’t that ironic, Adobe’s security forces us to circumvent and be less secure…But it works. I want to submit my form via ExternalInterface darnit and I’m gonna do it!

AMF also would be a viable solution I imagine. http://www.adylevy.com I believe does to get around the security.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:42:16 +0000

40kb limit and localconnection makes it too unreliable and slow to transfer an image that way… I suppose AMF could be used but that requires then data to be passed back and forth to the server. Man Adobe…Come on…Let LocalConnection call the load() or browse() methods will ya? It’s not ExternalInterface at that point. It’s a very concious embed of a swf, a very deliberate action. Where’s the security issue??

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:11:12 +0000

Cloning a click event (the browse for file button) and then dispatching that again for the actual submit didn’t work. Security saw right through that.

Also tried LocalConnection to call from another “button” swf a function in the “main” swf to then submit the form and it didn’t work.

My next step is to try to send from the submit to the main swf then from the main swf send all the data back to the submit swf and do the call there actually since that will be within a click event. That’s a lot of data passing between swfs and I’m curious to see how that’ll work ..Lots of hoop jumping. Probably won’t work either =(

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:41:55 +0000

Count me as another poor bastard…My resize before upload swf was all set. It took me a while but finally got it (first flash project I made no less!) and I thought it was obviously me being a noob. Nope, it’s Adobe being lame.

I don’t want to have to make a submit button in flash. In my case I want my file upload field (just one not multi) to be placed where ever and it’s designed to look just like normal one… Then I want a normal submit button in html/js to send off the submit from wherever I see fit in the design.

Sigh. Anyone have any kinda work around?