Re: FLASH: Flash Functionality Verification

[John Andrew Morrison]

Brad Merritt wrote:


> >>John,

> >>True, it would be great, especially for us game programmers who have our

> >>scoreboards, info, etc driven by local databases, so we can only serve the

>

> >>games off our servers.

>

> >>The risk is you could say:

> >>Load Variable

> >>server.domain.com/somefolder/somefile.txt

>

> >>And look at that, you have have someones files. This would only work with

> >>people's NT machines which are configured incorrectly, but that happens

> >>pretty often it would seem.

>

> You see this doesn't make sense to me. It seems flash only accepts a string

> in the key=value format so only if the asp had a response.write in that

> format

> would Flash get anything useful. Even then, you would have to write some

> complex

> algorithm to find the key values that became variables, and to top it off

> the

> likelyhood of something interesting being discovered is slim. Am I missing

> something?

>

> Thanks,

> John Andrew Morrison



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