AS2 - Count Impressions using an external counting link?

programming flash
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Hello all :slight_smile:

It’s been a while but I am once again desperate enough to post on here =)

I made a flash video player for a customer and it’s all working well- but there is one problem:

They want to count impressions (how many times a video was played).

I managed to achieve this before, using loadVars to call the link.

It works when I run the SWF on my PC (the link to call being on an external server) but it doesn’t work anymore, once the SWF is on the server.

I don’t want to make any assumptions what might cause this- because I don’t want to “taint” the possible answers coming from you experts out there =)

This is the code excerpt (the link is just an example):

var counting_pixel = "http://www.theserver.com/reporting/count.php";
newURL = new LoadVars();
newURL.onLoad = function (success)
{
    if (!success) 
    {
        trace("FAILED TO LOAD");
        return;
    }
    trace("SUCCESS");
}
newURL.load(counting_pixel);

When the file runs locally, it traces “SUCCESS” but now that it’s on the customer’s server, it fails.

The problem (as I see it) might be, that the data that is “loaded” is on a different server, while the scope is limited to local access…

But I need the local access because the SWF loads an XML from the customer’s server (the XML contains the path to the FLV)… so I can’t just set the SWF’s scope from local to external… or can I? Am I misunderstanding this? ^^;

Thanks in advance for your help (and your tolerance for my stupid questions ^^)