Re: FLASH: 4.0r26 HAS AUDIO PROBLEMS NOW . . . .

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Matt,


I did start out with a clear 'troll' warning.

Anyway to follow your suggestion :

"please send responses to the list for the benefit of all.

do not write to this address for technical support."

and as it has to do with recent discussions I would like to bring up a

few points if I may.

Referring to tech note 14234 and clarifying some things for the benefit

of this lists subscribers.

Flash when sending data with the get or post method encodes this data in

what is know as urlencoded form. The variant used is the one that

defines the '&' (ampersand) as a separator so if we have in the case of

a get :

// http://www.domain.com/page.asp?name=john&status=single

this should be parsed as two groups of name value pairs with the

ampersand acting as the separator.

Now using the same decoding principal what should :

// http://www.domain.com/page.asp?&name=john&status=single 

parse to ?

Well the correct answer is a set of three pairs of (variable name,

variable value). The first group is an empty pair the second is

(name,john) and the third is (status,single).

If you try parsing a query like the one above with perl you will get

these results as would be expected from something as stable and reliable

as perl.

Now sending this type of query to asp is something else.

ASP decides that this is a group of two pairs the first one (&name,john)

the second (status,single).

Notice how ASP chokes while parsing the first '&'. But this is something

that should be considered quite normal, after all ASP originates from

Microsoft...

Enough on this...

The same tech note also states :

"...Therefore, a "dummy" variable could be created in the Flash movie

whose name would be prefixed by the extra ampersand when passed...."

and "...this should be experimented with, due to the complexity of some

Flash projects and some server-side scripts. ...".

This advice is very good and should be given in a more positive way.

Why the alert ? Let's see when would this not work...

OK let's say the asp script counts the number of variables passed ok

this could be a problem , but it is easily solved and if the scripter

knows enough asp to implement a variable count routine he also should

know how to adapt it...

Sometimes it's not what's said it's the way it's said.


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