[JDEV] RFC: cross-domain Flash support

Matthias Wimmer m at tthias.net
Tue Oct 22 15:30:42 CDT 2002


Hi dlb!

dlb wrote:

>There's a way to circumvent the Flash sandbox by having the Flash client
>load a 'shim' from the foreign domain. The shim is a small SWF that
>establishes the socket instance used by the Flash client when connecting to
>the foreign server. For instance if I were to download a Flash webclient
>from www.hellokitty.com and want to connect to my account at jabber.org ,
>the client can load a shim from jabber.org to establish the connection. The
>shim would need to be retrieved via http.
>
Sounds like a good idea ... but I'm no flash developper ...
As a Jabber server admin I'd willing to host this thing ... I'm already 
providing some webspace to a flash developper to enable him to test his 
client against my server.


Tot kijk
     Matthias

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