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Uploading Gone in a Flash with Flash 10
Allen Stern - October 20th, 2008
Over the past week Adobe has apparently started to push out Flash 10 to general users. There appears to be issues with the way Flash 10 handles uploads versus the previous version, Flash 9. CN reader Jamie Lin sent over a handful links this evening pointing to trouble with uploads. Here are some examples of uploading issues:
- WordPress trouble ticket system
- WordPress general user forums
- Vimeo user forums
- Allvoices blog
- Flickr – apparently Flickr has moved to a different type of connection to avoid the Flash upload issue
From my research, the issue comes from how Flash 10 handles the "SWFUpload" function. YouTube may also be affected by this upload issue however I was not able to confirm in my testing.
I have an email into my contacts at Adobe and will report back. For now most of the links above suggest not updating to Flash 10 at this point.
Update: John Dowdell from Adobe points to this document for more information.
good find – i have been having big issues with uploading on vimeo
Thanks John!
Hi Allen, it’s true that a file upload must now include explicit user permission, and cannot be done programmatically. This is part of a series of security changes which started to enter discussion at the end of 2007.
Here’s a more recent, more readable summary:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_print.html#head3
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