Topic awaiting preservation: How to play FLASH on :8080

Hello,

I have a flash piece which displays fine when I browse to my internal IP address. When I try to view the same flash piece via the public accessible IP on port 8080 the page gets stuck trying to load it... I end up in an infinite load of the page (all things load except the flash piece). Any ideas?

This is a Win2K machine. I am behind a router and firewall which have been properly configured to display HTTP sites: port forwarding has been enabled, the IP address is trusted, and traffic on port 8080 has been allowed.


Karl

Do you have your webserver set up to listen for requests on port 8080?

First are you loading the flash piece from port 8080 as well. Second are you loading any external files from some other port than 8080? I think the flash security settings make you load from the same domain and port as the parent app.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Browsers interpret URLs using default values (e.g. port 80).

If you type <a href="index.html">asdf</a> in an HTML page located at http://somesite.com/asdf/main.html, the browser will recognise that there are 4 missing parameters in the HTML link: Protocol, Host, Port, and Path. It then fills in these values with the defaults: the Protocol is assumed to be http if not specified, the Port is assumed to be 80 if unspecified, and the path is assumed to be the current path on the server.

If you put in a link to <a href="/otherdir/stuff.html">stuff</a>, then the browser will interpret this to mean http://somesite.com/otherdir/stuff.html because the protocol, host, and port are still missing from the URL.

The browser will interpret the link to mean http://somesite.com:80/asdf/index.html

Your problem appears to be a simple URL error when linking in the flash. Try changing the URL to the flash file to http://server:8080/path/to/flash.swf

If you used some absolute (http://server/blah/blah.html) URLs in your links, you will probably have to change them to use port 8080 as well, since port 80 is inaccessible.

(Edited by abb on 07-29-2004 06:21)

i dunno??

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Does your router know what internal IP to direct 8080 requests to? Just setting it up to let them through may not be enough, it needs to know where to send them too.