Reading an XML file in FLASH in SCALA 5

Tuesday, 05/01/2007 -- by Ryan Forrester. Subject: Reading an XML file in FLASH in SCALA 5

This one's a doosie.

I have a flash file that's loading an XML file from a remote (HTTP) location...however every time the page renews in SCALA, instead of loading the XML file again it loads a cached version of the original XMLfile it loaded when the script loaded. When the FLASH file is run on it's own...it works fine and loads new XML data periodically. Can anyone help??!!

Thursday, 05/03/2007 -- by Marvin Droogsma (www.pthgroep.nl). Subject: Flash

Does the path to the XML contain a driveletter (full path) or just the name? Scala starts the Flash and probably sets its parentfolder to where Scala stores all data.

Thursday, 05/10/2007 -- by Hristo Evtimov. Subject: XML

try sending a fake random parameter along with the http request:

something like http://www.domain.com/file.xml?fakeparameter=randomvalue

Thursday, 05/10/2007 -- by Ryan Forrester. Subject: Fixed

Hristo,

Thanks much - You were right on! We generated a unique session ID at the end of the url using:

"http://domain.com?cachebuster=" + new Date().getTime().

It forced flash to look for a fresh url everytime.

The Scala Website requires that JavaScript (Active Scripting) be enabled.

Please go to Tools, Internet Options under the Menus. Select the Security Tab, then Custom Level button. Then click the Enable button under Scripting / Active Scripting. Hit OK, then OK again to exit requestors. You will know it's working when you see a "More" link in the links beneath the Tabs.

You can still use the website without changing this setting, but certain features will be disabled.

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