Flash Player 9 and Referrers
I do load-balancing on one of my sites by delivering content from different servers based on the referring URL. I have a media player that uses Flash to deliver content, and if the player is embedded on an external site, such as MySpace, the content comes from a different server. This worked fine in Flash 8, but in Flash 9, the content still comes from my original server. The reason behind it seems to be that Flash 9 reports its referrers differently. I use a BASE attribute to set the players base URL to my main server, so Flash 9 reports that as the referrer. Has anyone else run into this behavior? Is this something to do with the new Flash 9 security model?
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does it mean Flash 9 has an auto-sent referrer when loadVar getURL in Flash swf files.
Since in Flash 8, when I use the loadVar class and getURL function, there defaultly is a null referrer in the headers to my server!!!!
http://www.adobe.com/go/b06f1712
please refer the above adobe note:
they mentioned that “there is no workaround right now….”
Comment by Bennett — 11/8/2006 @ 7:44 am
I have a test for my guess. Flash 9 player does send _url of an swf file as the referrer in http headers rather than a null one in Flash 8!!!
Comment by bennett — 11/25/2006 @ 3:42 am