[JDEV] RFC: cross-domain Flash support

[Aaron McBride]

At 04:09 PM 10/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:


>I've developed a simple way to enable web based Flash Jabber apps to connect
>to foreign domains. This requires that a small Flash file , an SWF,  be
>hosted by whichever domain the user is attempting to log-in to . This SWF
>hosts the socket instance used for the connection.  I'm interested in
>getting some feedback on how we can standardize support for hosting this
>file among jabber installations, so that the user doesn't need to know the
>specific location of the file within each domain. Pervasive support for
>cross domain connections from Flash applications could be leveraged to make
>jabber a dominant solution for the adaptation of messaging and presence
>within web applications.
>
>If you're interested in this area pls read the following...

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>Regards;
>David Beard ~ FML developer and maintainer

What about running a small app on the server that the flash file came from?
In your example, www.hellokitty.com could run the app, and forward requests 
to jabber.org.

This would be a lot easier to guarantee because you don't need to get every 
jabber server out there supporting it... just the ones running flash or 
java clients.

-Aaron