# Absolute path?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolute-path/240460
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 3, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolute-path/240460 "2007-10-03T06:25:54Z")
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### Author: ![frescono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@frescono](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/frescono)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolute-path/240460/1 "2007-10-03T06:25:54Z")

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I have a site that loads a .swf from another server.  
The problem is that when loading things from that server into the swf it only works when I use absolute paths…

This wont work  
on (release) {  
loadMovie("/images/pic1.jpg", “\_root.player”);  
}

This works  
on (release) {  
loadMovie(“[http://www.domain.com/images/pic1.jpg](http://www.domain.com/images/pic1.jpg)", “\_root.player”);  
}

Why is this happening?