Flash Player 9 - Get Url not working

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MadisonNeal - 07 Jul 2008 13:35 GMT

I have a flash movie in a website which has the following "get url" script on a
button. It loads a page on the same website but with the latest install of
flash player on my and the clients machine the url link no longer works.
Anybody got any ideas on how to resolve?

The flash player version seems to be flash9f.ocx (WIN 9,0,124,0).

The actionscript in the movie is -

on (release)
{
getURL("/ShowSharePrices.do");
}

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johnnyprosper - 09 Jul 2008 17:21 GMT

I have ran into the same problem, some getURL work and some don?t, and some
work, and the ones that do, might not on other computers,

I have been dealing with this for a while and don?t know what to do and I
can?t narrow it down to a specific browser
I ALSO NEED HELP

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rritchey - 09 Jul 2008 19:22 GMT

I use absolute URL's in all of my getURL calls, and they all work in the latest
player. (I'm using the player10 beta2 release at the moment, but was using
9,0,124,0 for quite some time before that)

The issue is caused by some important security changes that Adobe implemented
in the previous public release of the player (9,0,116,0). There were some bugs
with it that were fixed for 9,0,124,0. Essentially the new security stops
getURL javascript calls. It seems it may also stop relative URL's, perhaps
locking down anything not using an "http://" call......?

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VITWA - 22 Jul 2008 10:31 GMT

> I use absolute URL's in all of my getURL calls, and they all work in the latest
> player. (I'm using the player10 beta2 release at the moment, but was using
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> getURL javascript calls. It seems it may also stop relative URL's, perhaps
> locking down anything not using an "http://" call......?

Hi..
i find the solution..
now getURL working in all player..

If a SWF file is calling getURL (or navigateToURL) and it is failing
for the reasons described above, there are several workarounds that
may be applied.

Modify the HTML page.

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">

and also in
" allowScriptAccess="always"
in <Embed code>

for example :
<object

classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"

codebase=" http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
width="550" height="400" align="middle">

<param name="movie" value="http://otherdomain.com/
exampleContent.swf">

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"

width="550" height="400" align="middle"

src="http://otherdomain.com/exampleContent.swf"

allowScriptAccess="always"></embed>

</object>

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Flash Player 9 - Get Url not working