loading a jpg from below the webroot 1

[timtom]

hi,
have been making a movie loading a bunch of images using loadMovie(mypic.jpg)

I haven't had a problem in development - but when I go to move the site live there's a bit of a problem. The actual images to be loaded are in a folder below the webroot (in D://images/ rather than in D://inetput/

http://wwwroot/mysite/mysitemovies/

etc.

by using loadMovie(../../mypic.jpg) I can go back to the

http://wwwroot

folder - but no further.

Can anyone help?
These images definitely can't be moved.
Why can't flash access jpgs below the webroot? Is it a permissions thing?

Thanks for any help you can give me.
Cheers,
Sarah

 

[RedRobotHero]

It's probably a permissions thing. Remember that Flash runs client-side, not server-side. So it can't use anything that isn't accessable by the client.

 

[timtom]

thanks redrob,
that sounds exactly right. we've temporarily got around this by loading aspx pages into flash which themselves read the images and output them as a jpg stream. this is ok for the moment, but it's hardly efficient.

looking to the future, is there any flash 2004 server side capability which might be able to solve our problem?