My webhost has rules against socket servers so I've been looking into GAE.
Does anyone know of a socket server that can successfully run on GAE? I'm using it for flash so anything like smartfox would be amazing if it's possible.
Is it possible to use a Facebook session in a Flash to authenticate on Google App Engine? I'm trying to create a Flash game and I want to use GAE as the back-end.
View 1 RepliesI am working on an app engine project in python were i want to be able to upload and play games in a .swf format. I am having trouble getting app engine to send(deliver, render, display,...not sure what the correct term is) files with a .swf ending.
I've tried embedding a picture in my object tag to make sure my html and Django template isn't what is causing th problem, and it works fine.
This is my app.yaml file
application: flashstealer
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
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I wanna incorporate a search engine into my web site similar to Google search.
View 7 Repliesthis seems really simple but I haven't gotten this to work. I am building my app with grails on google app engine. This pretty much requires you to use JDO. I am making an HTTP call from flex to my app. The action that I am calling on the grails end looks like so
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I have tried just returning "hello from grails" and that works just fine. I have alos tried the following return showInstanceList the JDO docs say the query.execute() returns a collection. Why I cant just return that to Flex I have no clue. after playing around with this some more I was able to get a result event back by have grails convert the object to JSON or XML wish I could just return a damn ArrayList.
I successfully did an application that uses Flex as a client as GAE as a backend.I would now like to public my application to a mobile device (galaxy tab) and still use my GAE application.
View 1 RepliesI have a server side code written in java and client side code written in flex. As client makes a request roughly every 3 seconds to the server, then I'm pretty sure I'm running into scalability problems at some point.
As far as I can see, I can host the application either in Google Apps Engine or Amazon Cloud. As I understand Amazon offers a do-it-yourself approach and I have to set up and maintain the cluster myself, which I'm not really fond of so I'm inclined to use GAE, which promises virtually infinite scalability if one can conform to the limitations and restrictions of course.
One of the limitations is the number of requests at 500 per second (can request temporarily more by filling in a special form), which roughly translates to 1500 simultaneous users, each pinging after every 3 seconds to the server.
What bothers me is that I really don't know how big this thing can grow and 1500 players definitely doesn't seem like a lot so besides using Google Apps and perhaps AWS (unless it scales better with what I'm trying to do), what other options do I have, which wouldn't cost me a fortune?
I am using python and webapp framework in app engine for backend and flex 4 for front end.I would like to pass a string form backend to front end, so i write the following code in the main.py:
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I have created a flex application in the Python Gae sdk and I got the error 2048, so I put a crossdomain.xml under the static folder.
The crossdomain.xml is following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy> [code].....
However, I still got the error 2048. Therefore, I would like to know is anything I need to configure or miss in my case and how to fix the error.
Has anyone been able to successfully implement a service to serve the required socket policy file to FlashPlayer?I am running the Python implementation of the service provided by Adobe at
[URL]
and using the following policy file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
<site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-only"/>
<allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*" secure="false"/>
</cross-domain-policy>
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I've been thinking for a long time about working on a multiplayer game in Flash. I need updates frequently enough that ajax requests won't work so I need to use a socket server. The system will eventually have enough objects/players that I would consider it an MMO. I would like to set up a scalable system on Amazon's EC2. (Which probably effects my choice of server) This architecture would hopefully allow the game to grow without many changes over time. (Using a domain decomposition technique or something similar)
Heres my internal debate:Should I
a. Code my own socket server in C++ or Java?
b. Use the free and open source Red5 socket server for Flash?
or c. Pay the licensing fees and go for Electroserver?
I consider myself a decent developer, but am at an impasse as to what road to go down. I'm not sure if I, could develop/would need, the features of one of the prepackaged socket servers.
I'm also not sure if the prepackaged servers would work well in an Amazon EC2 environment and take full advantage of its features.
i'm trying to connect my flash application to my nodejs server running socket.io. To connect via web-browser is no problem. Now the problem, when the socket-server isn't running i get an IOError in Flash what seams alright. Now when i start the server and try to connect again, i don't get an error, but the socket-server doesn't receive a connection either?!
View 1 RepliesI am working on the web base flash application I am trying to communicate with server through binary socket to the server through IP Address and Port using Action script 3.0 at the server side we are using java. I will like to send binary data string to the server in a clubbed single packet. I dont know the Action Script 3.0 as much.for this We will have to communicate through IP and Port only
View 1 RepliesI've benn trying to get a simple socket server test to work for days now and it seems I'm not getting very far.Basically I just want to send some data from flash to the php script and have it echo it out, or anything at all like that I've been working from this tutorial http[url]....I have this basic flash class which just sends a string to the server:
Code:
package{
import flash.net.XMLSocket
import flash.display.MovieClip[code]...
The server side php is the attached script (pretty much this http:[url]....So I keep the php running on my server then run the as class, what happens is after a while (presumably the 15 second script limit in as) I get this error:
Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: .../networking.swf cannot load data from website.com:9980.at base()
I am having trouble seeing my flash video on the server. I just see it in my local computer. I save everything and then preview it, upload the file to server, but it just don't show at my website.
View 5 RepliesI know the engine is derived from Mozilla SpiderMonkey. I am using an object which properties are IP addresses, i mean literally, as in: object["123.456.789.012"] The object is a map of banned clients. The number of properties approaches several hundreds. I wonder if this is a strain on the engine in any way? The reason I use this is because property lookup is just about the fastest thing you can do, as opposed to say an array with indexes and ip addresses as values, which would be an O(n) operation when doing lookup.
View 1 RepliesI'm working on a flash MMO with a c# server. I have a simple messaging protocol for the sockets. When a client joins he sends out this:
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I'm kinda noobish when it comes to getting information from XML information sent to my flash file from the socket server. OK so for example the server sends me this:
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I want to get the name of the user and the X and Y position! Is there a way I can get this information without a load of fuss from functions and other junk remember im kinda noobish.
I'm developing a game add-on/plugin which replaces a built in feature of an online game. The game loads an .swf therefore, my solution also has to be an swf for it to work 'in-game'.
I would like to be able to have the user press a button in the custom .swf I am making - and this would open an external application (amongst other things). I.e. if there was a button that said Notepad, it would open Notepad.exe on the machine.
My initial thinking was that i could have a XML Socket server 'daemon' runnning (c#) , which i could connect to with flash - however, as both the swf and the daemon are local, flash complained and gave this error: "Error #2010: Local-with-filesystem SWF files are not permitted to use sockets."
The only way i know to fix this - is to change the security settings of flash - not very user friendly!
So! Any thoughts on how I could otherwise go about this? I was thinking a custom http server could do the trick (connected with URLRequest) although i'm not too sure.
I have made a socket server in C# for a flash game that I am developing, I got the code from somewhere and I am a beginner in c# and .net development . It works fine in practice when connections are made and the server functions correctly. Get 2 concurrent connections at the same time and we have a problem. here is the basic aspects of the socket server below: (alot taken out for obvious reasons) how can I alter this so that it can handle concurrent connections? Should I be threading each response?
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I'm writing socket server in java for my flash browser based game and i need to connect to mysql database. Is it possible to connect to mysql through socket server and send received data to connected flash clients?
View 1 RepliesIf you cannot afford a socket server and want to support a massive amount of people chatting and playing multiplayer games on Flash, what would you do? Should I use PHP/MySQL? Would that put too much strain on it and make it slow?
View 1 RepliesI wrote a XML Socket server in PHP recently because I wanted to make a multiplayer Flash game in AS3. This server is supposed to be completely generic and doesn't have any game logic. You should be able to build pretty much any game with this server.
While writing it I realized the new version for Flash Player 9 r115 had some new security issues surrounding Sockets. So I implemented a crossdomain.xml and modified the XML Socket server to serve a crossdomain.xml file if it encounters a security request. The security policy socket server runs on 843 always (it's the default port flash player looks at).
Along with the PHP Socket server I wrote an XML Socket client in ActionScript 3 (AS3). This set of classes is also completely generic and is completely event driver. Your game client would include this file and pass it parameters through the Events classes in order to communicate with the socket server.
Lastly I created a very simple game / prototype using the AS3 class and PHP server. It is very basic, each player gets a ship, and can move around and shoot at other players. However I implemented all of the funtions: Logging in, Logging off, Synchronising players and movements, creating objects (ie firing a bullet), etc
I want to test a simple PHP socket server with Flex, server seems to work fine when trying to test using telnet, but Flex doesn't display any responses, here's my code:[code]
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to connect to a telnet server through a Socket.On that server, I setup a crossdomain.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="23" />
</cross-domain-policy>
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I'm working on a small school project, and I'm grabbing video from my webcam like this:
camera = Camera.getCamera();
if (camera == null) {
Security.showSettings(SecurityPanel.CAMERA);
} else {
camera.setMode(960, 600, 30, true);
camera.setQuality(0, 100);
outgoingVideo = new Video();
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And I would like to now send this video to a server I am connected to using an XMLSocket. Is this possible?
I am wondering if it is better to write basic "chat" client based servers in java because then you can have multi threaded servers where clients can connect and chat or if you can do this in Actionscript- minus the multi threading because from what I know air and or AS3 do not support threading.
View 2 RepliesI'm building a Flex application, which is going to perform many server requests (let's say, that almost all interactions require an update from server). At the moment I'm using remote procedure calls for it. But I was wondering if using a socket would be better. In other terms, is maybe better to keep the connection alive rather then performing many calls in sequence? For my demo app I only have 1 client. Is the number of clients connecting to the server a factor for this choice?
View 1 RepliesI read through the method to connect to a socket server : [URL]. I wrote an AIR application to connect to the java server code, but the client cannot connect. What is missing in the code?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="[URL]"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" backgroundColor="#D5F8C3">
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I'm trying to make a little ftp upload app - not a full FTP client, just something to enable image upload with decent performance. I basically took the approach Lee used in his POP3 socket tutorial. The problem I'm having is that I can connect to the FTP server and I can authenticate and log in but as soon as I try to enter passive mode for data transfer I get nothing- not even an error. From looking at the FTP RFCs, FTP requires two TCP connections - a command connection and a data connection - does this mean that I need to open a second socket for the data transfer? Another possible issue is the Flash Player security policy not allowing conection to ports under 1024 - I have not placed a policy file or policy server on the host running the FTP server but as I can successfully login, I appear to be able to connect to port 21 (standard FTP port) anyway. The code I'm using is:
Code: Select allvar s:Socket = new Socket("ftp.actechnology.co.uk",21);
var ftp_response:String;
s.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.SOCKET_DATA, receiveReply);
s.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, showError);
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why passive mode kills it or has successfully connected to a FTP server with the socket class