Hi all,
having a torrid time with this, please pitch in with anything you feel might be relevant, much googling has turned up a big fat zero for me.
I have a flash app that uses the FileReference download method to serve up download links. Many of the links come from big content delviry networks and a crossdomain policy file is required to avoid a security error. This all works fine. Except for redirects in IE… in FF redirects work.
A typical Charles log in FF looks like this…
- 302: download file temporarily moved
- 302: download file found
- 200: download file received OK
- 200: crossdomain policy file received OK
In IE the Charles log looks like this…
- 302: download file temporarily moved
- 302: download file found
- 200: client closed connection before receiving entire response
…the request for the crossdomain policy file is not being made in IE & thus flash blocks access to the download (client closed connection). The flash throws the traditional 2048 security error - which is what I’d expect if no crossdomain is available. It’s worth noting that downloads without a redirect work fine in IE, the crossdomain is requested & received.
As far as I can make out there is no way to force “checkPolicyFile” with FileReference - it doesn’t take a LoaderContext object. I’m at a loss of what I can do to resolve this without putting a proxy on our webserver (the backend guru will not allow this as the downloads can be quite large & he thinks will end up being a huge bottleneck).
Given the differing behaviours in IE & FF, I’m putting this down to a bug in IE, which probably means I’m screwed right?
Thanks for reading.
PMF
