[JDEV] RFC: cross-domain Flash support

[matthew c. mead]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:09:01PM -0700, Aaron McBride wrote:
> 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.

How about making the web server that serves the flash client HTTP
proxy for the flash client to make connections to the appropriate
remote jabber servers?  Many of the freely available clients already
support HTTP proxy connections, so examples of how to do this should
be readily available.  Additionally, most web servers will support
being an HTTP proxy, so really it becomes solely an issue if
configuration (and potentially authentication that an HTTP proxy
request is coming from the flash client and not some random Jane's
web browser) for the entity hosting the flash client in their
web-app.




-matt

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