Flash Crossdomain.xml Problems

actionscript-3, crossdomain.xml, flash, gravatar

Solution

I got around a similar issue by using a LoaderContext. Here's an example of how to do this:

var context:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext();
context.checkPolicyFile = true;
context.securityDomain = SecurityDomain.currentDomain;
context.applicationDomain = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(
    "http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/" + gravatar + "?s=35&d=identicon");
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.load(request, context);

Problem

I'm trying to load Gravatars into Flash. Luckily, they provided a crossdomain.xml file at `http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/crossdomain.xml` My code: ``` Security.loadPolicyFile("http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/crossdomain.xml"); var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.load(new URLRequest("http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/" + gravatar + "?s=35&d=identicon")); ``` But I'm still getting this error: SecurityError: Error #2123: Security sandbox violation: LoaderInfo.content: [...] cannot access http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/97fbce86a5bbc520450168603172cd9e?s=35&d=identicon. No policy files granted access. at flash.display::LoaderInfo/get content() at PiecePlayerSmall/onLoadComplete() I also monitored the traffic the Flash file is sending. It's requesting: - My domain's crossdomain.xml file - "http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/crossdomain.xml" - "http://en.gravatar.com/crossdomain.xml" - "http://en.gravatar.com/" - then, http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/97fbce86a5bbc520450168603172cd9e?s=35&d=identicon Any suggestions for getting this to work and reducing the number of requests to gravatar.com. EDIT: The following code works, thanks to Jacob ``` Security.loadPolicyFile("http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/crossdomain.xml"); var context:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(); context.checkPolicyFile = true; context.applicationDomain = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain; var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/" + gravatar + "?s=35&d=identicon"); var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.load(request, context); this.addChild(loader); ``` Note: Do not try to access the content directly in the Event.COMPLETE

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