Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Remoting / June 2005

Two things come to mind:
1. You're using 'localhost' in your connection string.
2. You're running a developer server which doesn't allow you connect from other machines other than your own.

I have the same problem... I think it's a bad bug from MMFlash... I'd be thankul if anyone let me know the solution (of course if it was a problem, not a bug)

Porsche: look into crossdomain.xml --> will most likely solve your problems.

By default, flash is limited to retreiving data from the web site its hosted
from.  If you try accessing information from another web site, flash is
supposed to look for a crossdomain.xml file on the root of the remote web site
to see if it has permission.  I use crossdomain.xml files on several of my
intranet sites I administer.  I have a flash application which calls an ASP
page that returns XML with drive information and space available for our
administrators.  Because I have two flavors (web version and an executable) I
need to allow a broad number of users.  Since this is limited to our intranet,
I allow flash applications hosted anywhere to access data.  For each server
that has the hosted ASP page that returns XML, I have the following
crossdomain.xml text file copied to my wwwroot folder:  <?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM
'http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd'>
<cross-domain-policy>   <allow-access-from domain='*' /> </cross-domain-policy>
To read more about crossdomain.xml and see how you can restrict sites using it
go here: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14213 
Hope this helps!

i have the same problem. i'm using .NET 1.1 and IIS 5.0 to my local server
and to my web server but when the flash movie trying to call a method
inside a service (asp.net dll file) it cannot find it.

if you find any solution please inform me at ottokan@hotmail.com,

thanks

i have exactly the same problem between local and web server.

I'm trying everything but the problem exists.

i'm using framework 1.1, IIS 5.0, VS 2003, Latest version of macromedia products.

when you using the developer edition if you try to access the flashgateway.dll from another computer you get an error string inside the log text file which inform you about that.
i replace the connection string inside action script from localhost to web server URL.
i'm giving full access thru web.config file.
and finally i'm running the net connection debbuger.
Everything works fine just like local server until the moment which the flash movie try to open the asp.net dll file inside bin directory.

i'm afraid that maybe is a security issue from windows 2000 because the operating system is the only difference between the 2 servers. (xp PRO SP2 - 2000 SP4)

OttoNoSpam,

I've not done a lot of .NET development, but don't you want to have your flash
application connect with your .aspx page, or if you're trying to connect to a
service on the remote machine, shouldn't it be through a WSDL connection?  If
you're able to get it to work from your local system and not the remote one,
perhaps there's limited access to DLLs?  Also, remember the server itself also
needs the crossdomain.xml file in place to allow your flash application to
access the server.

Personally, I've only connected to .ASP pages (old IIS 4/5 style Active Server
Pages) and return XML instead of HTML.

Good luck,

-Chris

I have no problems running the remoting since I use my full domain (see below).

http:://www.armartitleservice.com/demo.html

I am using AS2 w/ remoting and get mixed results on many PCs. On some all
works well and on others, content does not load. The site just hangs or shows
no content. I ahve checked the site on DSL, T1, dialup, Mac, PC uninstalled
flash players, installed latest, upgraded you name it .

Is this a bug or a script problem

PLease reply with what you see online
IF possible send a screenshot to tomasp@ellip-c.com

Another problem could be that your server is multihomed which can cause a
problem with flash remoting.  Check out this article... this was my problem.


http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashremoting//ts/documents/iis_gateway_connec
tion.htm#enable

Richard

Hello Robert Shields,

I have just mailed you the solutions as a sample application, to your mail ID
that you had provided to our executive.

Good Luck

Hemendra Singh Shaktawat

Mindfire Solutions
www.mindfiresolutions.com 

Hi Porsche_2004 ,

Well Its not a bug from MM.
One has to get licence for the Flash Remoting and for our ease the Developer
licence is given at free of cost and that works with one IP one.
The same information is given when we install the developer version of Flash
Remoting.

Good Luck

Hemendra Singh Shaktawat

Mindfire Solutions
www.mindfiresolutions.com

I have looked at this page over and over since I am having the same problem
where I can run my flash remoting .swf just fine through macromedia's preview
and as a standalone on my computer, but as soon as I pull it up on a browser
using the URL, it doesn't pull the data at all.  I am not using localhost in
the connection screen.  What can I do to figure out the problem?

Thanks in advance,
Ashly

oops... nevermind, it ended up being a small typo.

Thanks,
Ashly