Sockets :: Can Flash App Running In Browser Connect To Localhost To Get Data From Another App?
Dec 21, 2009
it seems that Flash was supposed to run in a sandbox in the browser. But, if Flash can get data from a remote server, can it similarly get data from localhost IP on the same machine? In other words, can I use a Windows app that provides a TCP socket on localhost to feed data into a Flash app?the answer is yes at least for the case of an SWF file hosted in the file system, URL...(turns out the localhost access error can be fixed if you add the SWF app to some security whitelist). Still wondering if this can also be done for SWF apps hosted on the network.
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Dec 5, 2011
I'm making a program in flash builder 4.5 using WebOrb 4 (which is fantastic, I might add). When I go to deploy, however, it gives me this error:
>There was an error during model deployment for xxxxProgram.
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>The server returned the following message:
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>Unable to contact the RDS Server "Data Services on Tomcat (localhost)."
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>Connection refused: connect
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>Do you want to continue launching your Flex application?
I've poked around online for a solution, but for the most part I either don't understand them (forum grammar can be somewhat obtuse) or the answer in the post doesn't apply.
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Jul 7, 2010
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Dec 26, 2010
I am a weird problem when an swf file is communicating with the localhost server. the application runs perfectly well through the flash player of the compiler. however, when I try to execute it through the browser - it seems as if the application doesn't connect to the localhost path at all.
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May 12, 2011
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May 9, 2011
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May 26, 2011
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Apr 21, 2010
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Oct 24, 2010
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Dec 18, 2009
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Nov 10, 2009
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Oct 17, 2006
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Jul 12, 2009
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Sep 17, 2010
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I've tried adding a crossdomain.xml file served by a PHP script listening on the correct port, but none of the clients ever seem to ask for it, and if the client works on Mac I assumed it should work on Windows. By the way I'm exporting the project as an AIR file (dunno if that makes a difference).I can't find anything regarding this so I'm wondering if I'm being stupid somewhere or whether I need to takes some special measures for Windows clients?I have pasted my client code below.
import flash.events.Event;
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import flash.events.MouseEvent;[code]......
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I have a C++ application which sends images to a Flex/Air front-end via TCP sockets. All this data transfer occur in the same host, so the socket connects to a localhost server. The problem is that the Flex/Air takes a really long time to read the entire image from the socket. The server sends the image quite fast, but the Flex/Air reads this image in tiny parts. The whole image has about 300MB and the Flex/AIR reads only about 1KB each iteration. So the flex keeps calling the socket data callback, which is causing the application to slowdown.
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I am writing an application in Flash Builder 4.5. I am also writing a PHP Web service to access data from our MySQL database. This Web service will be made available to third party clients for them to develop applications to access our database as well, via SOAP.
Is there a big performance difference between connecting to the service in Flash Builder via connecting directly to the PHP file vs. connecting to a Web Service via SOAP?I would kind of like to connect to this service the same way that our clients will, to make sure things stay as uncomplicated as possible for future development, but performance is my main priority.
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Apr 1, 2009
I have a pretty elaborate class that extends Socket and performs some serialization and data protocol stuff. It works pretty well when I send small messages. However, when I send anything over about 132KB at once, the SOCKET_DATA progress events stop firing -- or at least the function I've got listening for them does. My class is called RPCSocket and I assign the socketDataHandler function like this in my constructor:
addEventListener(ProgressEvent.SOCKET_DATA, socketDataHandler);
My socketDataHandler function (with lots of comments) is attached. Is there some limit to how much data can be sent over a socket at once? Is there something wrong with my code? Here's the trace output:
Code:
socketdatahandler
bytesAvail:4380
buffer length:0
reading bytes into buffer for concat
buffer length after concat:4380
buffer state:0
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Jun 19, 2011
I have written an ActionScript 3 class that is a Server Socket and accepts connections.I want to write a client in order to send data to the server. The client will be a mobile browser. I think that i will use javascript. Is it possible to connect to the server from mobile environment?
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Dec 14, 2009
I am having issues getting Flash to connect to a SQL 2000 Database. I keep getting an error with flash.data.*.The code is :
import flash.data.*
I receive the following error:
1172: Definition flash.data could not be found.
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