[Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

Wed Oct 13 17:30:13 BST 2010

Pat, see my post about having been down this road.

All this thrashing about is due to the fluky chance that a client sent me some XML to test with a hyphen in an element tag.
Hyphens are perfectly XML legal AFAIK.
I kept getting NaN back when I tried to access via dot notation anything  within that tag set.

Now the easy answer is of course, change the tag. But when you do dynamic engines and don't know in the long run what someone might try to run through there, it can't be considered best practice ;-)

So I thought, OK, maybe the XML has to come URL encoded, and using FileLocation doesn't give me that.
So I tried to serve the XML off my server, and now I've run into the sendAndLoad vs Loadvars problem.

Anyway, I tested in a dummy file using Loadvars to the XML on my server, and elements with a hyphen still return NaN when access is attempted.

From: Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:15:14 +0100
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

Think xerte desktop still uses IE to get to the internet?

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 13 October 2010 16:50

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

Thought that only operated on a browser.

I'm in Xerte desktop.

From:
Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:46:44 +0100

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

Check with fiddler?

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 13 October 2010 16:46

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

"ctrls.sendAndLoad(myReq, 'http://www.myserver.com/dave/some.xml'); //
just sits at event trap"

From:
Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:41:49 +0100

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

Using the full domain in the http://
request?

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 13 October 2010 16:39

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

Only works on domains I think.

Never seen a local file system specified in one.

From:
Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:32:23 +0100

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

Crossdomain?

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 13 October 2010 16:32

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Subject: [Xerte] Xerte and Flash security

If while I am developing a bit and I want to load some XML from my server,
what's the trick?

ctrls.sendAndLoad(myReq, FileLocation + 'some.xml'); //trips onLoad event

ctrls.sendAndLoad(myReq, 'http://www.myserver.com/dave/some.xml'); // just sits
at event trap

Dave

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