Re: FLASH: Relative links & GetURL: Huge Problem?

[John Croteau]

Hi Colin,


> 2) CLICKING LINKS CAUSES CRASHES ON MACS

> **Description:

> a) Nearly every type of Mac OS, Processor, and browser version (IE,

> Netscape) will crash (some always, some occassionally) when a link is

> clicked in the simple test Flash movie at:

> "http://www1.iceinc.com/testllink/leveltwo/relativebase.html". Not all

> machines will crash. Some are fine. Nearly no windows machine will

> crash predictably. No ActiveX version of Flash will crash on the same

> movie. The webserver is MS IIS 3.0 running on NT.

> b) When the exact same movie is viewed from a Unix machine running

> Netscape Enterprise server, no crashing happens on any machine.

> **Cause: Possibly the webserver software? Possibly the webserver

> operating system? (I know, it sounds impossible).

> **Solution: Host files on Unix and hope. I can't actually isolate the

> problem here, so I don't have a real solution.

Colin the page you refer to is not there.

Since there are literally thousands of MS IIS 3 servers running Flash

without problems, there is something specificly wrong with your server.

It is even possible that it is a simple MIME setting problem.


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