Flash works over Internet, but not over LAN?

[adamtate]

We are hosting our school website on a server on our network.

If you go to

http://www.st-chads.co.uk

you will see a flash news ticker on the right hand side.

Obviously due to logic, to get to our website on the LAN we cannot use

http://www.st-chads.co.uk,

we use

http://webserver/

instead.

That flash ticker can be viewed from anywhere outside of the network, but when I go to

http://webserver/

the flash ticker is just like an object placeholder.

If I go to

http://webserver/flash/testnews.swf

WHICH IS THE FLASH FILE, I can view it fine!!!

As soon as that flash file is embedded into that webpage I cannot view it again.

Has anybody ever seen this before? I'm completely confused!


Thanks In Advance

Adam Tate

 

[TheConeHead]

I can not see any flash file for news...

 

[adamtate]

That'd be because I've sacked the idea off completely and now I'm trying Java instead!!! Not ideal but it may work better??? I dunno... my head is just mashed!

 

[TheConeHead]

hmmm... no reason the flash should not work - are you sure you were linking to it correctly (not via

http://....)?

 

[adamtate]

absolutely certain sir!! its the first time ive ever had this problem, but it's really got to me this time!!! i hate being beaten!

 

[TheConeHead]

hmmm... very peculiar... as someone once told me, at best html is a suggestion.

 

[adamtate]

i agree with you on that one

 

[pixl8r]

Sounds like a sandbox (security) issue. Flash has some protections against loading information from sites/services other than you own.

See the topic on Cross-domain and subdomain access between SWF files in your Flash help system. Maybe that is what is causing your issue.

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[adamtate]

Er... yeah!

I'll have one of what you just said with fried rice please!?

 

[pixl8r]

LOL... try this...

Look it up. Search Flash help on "sandbox" and look for the topic in bold above.

No Soy please.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!