Re: FLASH: ASP to Flash - implied method and limitations

[Vipin Kanwar]

Hi Neal,


Yes.. there are other ways to do that.


1.    a) You could use the post method too.. and the only consideration you

have to think about is.. the amount of data being sent. By using the get

method... you can only limit your message size to 2056 characters (or close to

that). But by using the Post method which uses a totally different header in

html.. you can send out bigger messages or variables.. or strings.


b)    There are many ways to do that.. and since i was recently doing

something similar.. I happened find this link on the macromedia web-site. this

should explain a lot about how variables can be used

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/set_variables.htm


Hope you find this informative enough.


regards

vipin


Neal Cabage wrote:


> I have a question about sending info from ASP to Flash.

>

> Ok, so I know that I can send the info back to Flash by simply writing a

> querystring containing the key/pair values but I am not *entirely* sure

> what's going on here and thus the limitations are a little foggy to me.

>

> I *presume* that this means that everything is being sent via the GET

> method, back to Flash.  If so, there is an implicit 2056 total character

> (inlcuding hex-encoded values) limit on the v4 browsers for which I am

> authoring.  Thus, there is a definite limitation that would effect how I

> approach sending data to Flash.

>

> So, my questions the are:

>

> 1. Is this in fact using the GET method of is there something else going on

> here?

> 2. Is there a away (presuming this is GET) to use the POST method instead?

> Only examples I have found are passing data by writing the URLencoded

> key-pairs.

>

> Thanks.

> Neal Cabage

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