I had made the commitment a while back that I was going to add complete and perfect drag-and-drop support to jSeamless. The Flex Implementation proclaims support for DnD so I’ve just pushed off the investigation up until recently. However, now that I’ve come to implement this great functionality I realize that there is absolutely no…
Month: December 2007
Applet Roadblock
My massive hack for native drag-and-drop in jSeamless Flex implementation is functional, but only in Firefox. Apparently there is an interesting “feature” in IE that even though you may sign your Applet and the user grants that they way to trust said Applet, it still never gives you read access to the file system. That…
Flash/Flex URLRequest Upload Security Hack – Part 2
So I lied, apparently my hackery wasn’t enough to appease IE even though Firefox happily worked going forward. Apparently in IE it determines, “Oh, I’ve been authenticated on this URL before…so lets send broken authentication information instead of an upload”, and then no matter what you respond back to the request with it just ignores…
Flash/Flex URLRequest Upload Security Hack
It’s been a while since I posted and after dealing with this horrid bug in Flash I figured it would be a great topic to get me back on track. So, apparently there’s this nifty little bug in Flash/ActionScript with the URLRequest object when you attempt to do a file upload, it uses a completely…