Flash security setting for SmugMug sites?

bryanbrazil · December 4, 2010

Are there any restrictions placed on embedded flash objects on SmugMug pages that would prevent urls in a flash object from working?

The reason I ask is that I have a flash map embedded on my SmugMug About page at:

http://www.bryanbrazil.com/Other/About/12619380_eBFs2

When the code for the map is run outside of SmugMug, you can click on the markers and they will launch the specified photo galleries.

See http://www.bryanbrazil.net/ammap/test.html

When the map is embedded in SmugMug, however, the links no longer work.

Hopefully someone can help me figure this one out...thanks!

-Bryan Brazil

Andy · December 4, 2010

No Special settings at all, that I know of. Hm.

bryanbrazil · December 4, 2010

Found out from the map makers that Flash security prevents links from working outside of the server where the map files reside. Doesn't sound like there's a solution.

Andy wrote: »

No Special settings at all, that I know of. Hm.

bryanbrazil · December 4, 2010

Andy, is it possible to have SmugMug install a simple text file in the root of my SmugMug site, bryanbrazil.smugmug.com? Adobe Flash prohibits cross domain access unless a policy file is in place. The policy file, crossdomain.xml, would just have to look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
		
	    <!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
		
	    <cross-domain-policy>
		
	    <allow-access-from domain="www.bryanbrazil.com" />

            <allow-access-from-domain="bryanbrazil.smugmug.com" />

	    </cross-domain-policy>

For more information, see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14213.html

Thanks,
Bryan

jfriend · December 6, 2010

bryanbrazil wrote: »
Andy, is it possible to have SmugMug install a simple text file in the root of my SmugMug site, bryanbrazil.smugmug.com? Adobe Flash prohibits cross domain access unless a policy file is in place. The policy file, crossdomain.xml, would just have to look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
        
        <!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
        
        <cross-domain-policy>
        
        <allow-access-from domain="www.bryanbrazil.com" />

            <allow-access-from-domain="bryanbrazil.smugmug.com" />

        </cross-domain-policy>
For more information, see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14213.html

Thanks,
Bryan

See this thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=658923#post658923 about using api.smugmug.com instead.

bryanbrazil · December 6, 2010

Hmm, couldn't get api.smugmug.com to work. I'm trying to display a .swf Flash file (located on an external server) on a SmugMug page. The .swf has links in it to several of my SmugMug galleries.

I just replaced "bryanbrazil.smugmug.com" in the links to my galleries with "api.smugmug.com". Is this how it's supposed to work?

Thanks for your help! I'm guessing this will probably never work, but I'd like to try.

-Bryan

jfriend · December 6, 2010

bryanbrazil wrote: »

Hmm, couldn't get api.smugmug.com to work. I'm trying to display a .swf Flash file (located on an external server) on a SmugMug page. The .swf has links in it to several of my SmugMug galleries.

I just replaced "bryanbrazil.smugmug.com" in the links to my galleries with "api.smugmug.com". Is this how it's supposed to work?

Thanks for your help! I'm guessing this will probably never work, but I'd like to try.

-Bryan

What are you trying to do with the links to the galleries in the swf? I believe that the api.smugmug.com solution was when a flash file wants to programmatically get images from Smugmug and use those images in the swf. Gallery pages are HTML pages that are displayed in a browser. What exactly are you trying to do with them in the SWF?

bryanbrazil · December 6, 2010

jfriend wrote: »

What are you trying to do with the links to the galleries in the swf? I believe that the api.smugmug.com solution was when a flash file wants to programmatically get images from Smugmug and use those images in the swf. Gallery pages are HTML pages that are displayed in a browser. What exactly are you trying to do with them in the SWF?

There's an .swf map on my About page with points-of-interest on it. The POIs have URLs to my corresponding SmugMug galleries. When you click on a POI, it should load that gallery in the browser. You can check out the map, although the links don't work, at:

http://www.bryanbrazil.com/Other/About/12619380_eBFs2

jfriend · December 6, 2010

bryanbrazil wrote: »

There's an .swf map on my About page with points-of-interest on it. The POIs have URLs to my corresponding SmugMug galleries. When you click on a POI, it should load that gallery in the browser. You can check out the map, although the links don't work, at:

http://www.bryanbrazil.com/Other/About/12619380_eBFs2

You've passed by my knowledge of Flash development. I'd be surprised if you have to have a crossdomain.xml file just to use clickable links to another site in a flash file. That's widely allowed in HTML (you can put an <a> tag to anywhere in an HTML file and it's not a security issue there so I have no idea why it would be restricted in flash. My guess is that there's something wrong with the way you're doing the links, but that's just a guess since I haven't seen your source.

bryanbrazil · December 7, 2010

The flash map is provided by ammap.com. The links are loaded from an xml file and each link is specified in a <movie> tag that looks something like this:

<movies>
  	<movie color="000000" color_hover="b2b2b2" url="http://www.bryanbrazil.com/National-Parks/Yosemite/12617433_J9ckz" file="target" title="Yosemite National Park" lat="37.45" long="-119.40" width="10" height="10" fixed_size="true"/>
</movies>

Both the .swf and .xml files are on the same server, I'm just loading the .swf from my SmugMug page. I tried placing a crossdomain.xml file on the server with the map files, but no luck.

I heard back from amMap and it sounds like there's no way to get links to work when loading the map from an external server using the current map implementation.

Thanks for all your help on this!
-Bryan

jfriend · December 7, 2010

bryanbrazil wrote: »
The flash map is provided by ammap.com. The links are loaded from an xml file and each link is specified in a <movie> tag that looks something like this:
<movies>
      <movie color="000000" color_hover="b2b2b2" url="http://www.bryanbrazil.com/National-Parks/Yosemite/12617433_J9ckz" file="target" title="Yosemite National Park" lat="37.45" long="-119.40" width="10" height="10" fixed_size="true"/>
</movies>
Both the .swf and .xml files are on the same server, I'm just loading the .swf from my SmugMug page. I tried placing a crossdomain.xml file on the server with the map files, but no luck.

I heard back from amMap and it sounds like there's no way to get links to work when loading the map from an external server using the current map implementation.

Thanks for all your help on this!
-Bryan

You're beyond my area of knowledge, but do you realize that the link you have in the movie tag "http://www.bryanbrazil.com/National-Parks/Yosemite/12617433_J9ckz" is a gallery HTML page, not a movie of any kind?

bryanbrazil · December 8, 2010

jfriend wrote: »

You're beyond my area of knowledge, but do you realize that the link you have in the movie tag "http://www.bryanbrazil.com/National-Parks/Yosemite/12617433_J9ckz" is a gallery HTML page, not a movie of any kind?

Yeah, that is the way that amMap does any kind of links, even to standard html pages. The "movie", so to speak, is a black circle on the map that points to a SmugMug gallery.

Flash security setting for SmugMug sites?

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