Comments on: the ridiculous SP2 Download Blocker http://outburst.jloop.com/2004/12/09/the-ridiculous-sp2-download-blocker/ our daily brew of rich media Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: John Dowdell http://outburst.jloop.com/2004/12/09/the-ridiculous-sp2-download-blocker/comment-page-1/#comment-12 John Dowdell Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:56:06 +0000 /?p=13#comment-12 Understood, those intermittent symptoms are the hardest to diagnose, because it's harder to be sure we've found the key ingredients.... :( Understood, those intermittent symptoms are the hardest to diagnose, because it’s harder to be sure we’ve found the key ingredients…. :(

]]> By: Jay http://outburst.jloop.com/2004/12/09/the-ridiculous-sp2-download-blocker/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Jay Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:55:56 +0000 /?p=13#comment-11 I did a little more research to see if I could determine any specific cause from my app that is making this occur. But being that I've been researching this all week, I found nothing new. The only thing I did consider last night is that the problem seems to occur much more frequently on the client port we did of jsymmetry at https://www.novoengineering.com/admin. There are 2 differences technically between that site and ours: 1) That site runs entirely through SSL, and 2) The interface is a frameset, so the Flash file you are clicking on is in a nested frame. I have tried testing this out with a plain vanilla SWF in a frameset and via http, but I can't get the problem to occur right now. But the problem does occur... very infrequently... on jsymmetry as well. And that's the main problem... I can't determine when or why this problem happens and it happens intermittently. One caveat... I am able to consistently make the problem occur on the novo admin dev site with a particular file I am attempting to download... IE throws the error every time. I'll keep looking for anything to report to MM, but I'm not sure yet. I did a little more research to see if I could determine any specific cause from my app that is making this occur. But being that I’ve been researching this all week, I found nothing new. The only thing I did consider last night is that the problem seems to occur much more frequently on the client port we did of jsymmetry at https://www.novoengineering.com/admin. There are 2 differences technically between that site and ours: 1) That site runs entirely through SSL, and 2) The interface is a frameset, so the Flash file you are clicking on is in a nested frame.

I have tried testing this out with a plain vanilla SWF in a frameset and via http, but I can’t get the problem to occur right now.

But the problem does occur… very infrequently… on jsymmetry as well. And that’s the main problem… I can’t determine when or why this problem happens and it happens intermittently.

One caveat… I am able to consistently make the problem occur on the novo admin dev site with a particular file I am attempting to download… IE throws the error every time.

I’ll keep looking for anything to report to MM, but I’m not sure yet.

]]> By: John Dowdell http://outburst.jloop.com/2004/12/09/the-ridiculous-sp2-download-blocker/comment-page-1/#comment-9 John Dowdell Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:51:20 +0000 /?p=13#comment-9 Hmm, but this is the first post I recall reading about "intermittent XP2 permission to download executables from click in SWF" problems... I can't find a match for the symptom in the Macromedia portal page on SP2 either: http://www.macromedia.com/support/service/servicepack2.html Can you also achieve this intermittent behavior in a new, bare, simple file? If so, then could I ask you to contact Macromedia Tech Support with it so that we can repro, log, and diagnose it too...? tx, jd/mm Hmm, but this is the first post I recall reading about “intermittent XP2 permission to download executables from click in SWF” problems… I can’t find a match for the symptom in the Macromedia portal page on SP2 either:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/service/servicepack2.html

Can you also achieve this intermittent behavior in a new, bare, simple file? If so, then could I ask you to contact Macromedia Tech Support with it so that we can repro, log, and diagnose it too…?

tx,
jd/mm

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