Fwd: Flash based games not working

[Micha Silver]

Arie Skliarouk wrote:
> Forwarding to Linux-Il (see the message below).
>
> I don't have a way to check flash player 9 on the wejew.com 
> <http://wejew.com> or walla.com <http://walla.com> sites. Can someone 
> check the sites using flash player 9 please?
>
Here's the link to the specific games: (very long, careful about line 
breaks...)

http://fun.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?w=//1861/play/1/@c2p&status=all&swf_URL=http%3A%2F%2Fico.walla.co.il%2Fw6%2Fv%2Ffun%2Fc2p%2Fv5%2FRoomList_5%3Froom_id%3D1861%26amp%3Bsite_id%3D25%26amp%3Borigin%3DRoomList%26amp%3BipString%3D80.179.46.34%26amp%3Bjava_port%3D8080%26amp%3Ball_java_ips%3D%26amp%3Bnavigator%3DUnknown%26amp%3BcanRTMPT%3Don%26amp%3BmatchStarted%3Dt%26amp%3BmatchEnded%3Dt%26amp%3BgetSavedData%3Dt%26amp%3BsendMatchEnded%3Dt%26user_id%3D171724102%26random_hash%3D508006432&user_id=171724102&random_hash=508006432&globalKey=1314859720
You should see a list of players in the central window.
(The same problem appears with damka, chess, etc. on this site)
Thanks,
Micha
> --
> Arie
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Robert Wallner* <kodixos at gmail.com <mailto:kodixos at gmail.com>>
> Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:44
> Subject: Re: Flash based games not working
> To: Arie Skliarouk <skliarie at gmail.com <mailto:skliarie at gmail.com>>
>
>
> I had the same problem with an application I developed in Haxe. It was
> related to a security change macrodobia made with the way a new
> "security" feature works with the new players. When connecting to a
> socket, the new players now request a policy file from the server, and
> if it doesn't exist, it just closes the connection. Old code that
> isn't updated to use this "feature" seems to get stuck when
> downloading something through sockets, like video players not playing
> the video, the spinner thing spinning forever, etc...
>
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security.html
>
> Try to downgrade to a player version lower than 9.0.115.0, if it
> works, maybe that's the problem.
>
> 2009/8/11 Arie Skliarouk <skliarie at gmail.com <mailto:skliarie at gmail.com>>:
> > That looks reminiscent to the way videos on site wejew.com 
> <http://wejew.com> don't work, for
> > example
> > 
> http://wejew.com/media/5193/Hizbullah_Violates_UN_Resolution_1701_in_Lebanon_15.7.09/
> >
> > It also loads up and the spinner rotates endlessly. The same problem 
> happens
> > on Windows XP with firefox 3.5 (under IE it works).
> >
> > I have been in touch with the developers of wejew.com 
> <http://wejew.com> and they said that
> > they use firefox 3.5 (on windows) and don't see any problems.
> >
> > Micha, can you post direct URL to the problematic sheshbesh game on the
> > walla.co.il <http://walla.co.il> site please?
> >
> > --
> > Arie
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:33, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il 
> <mailto:micha at arava.co.il>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some of the younger members of the family play flash games 
> (sheshbesh) on
> >> Walla's site. On Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04 this worked well
> >> (flashplugin-nonfree). The 8.10 machine was upgraded to 9.04 and 
> still the
> >> site worked OK. But recently, after some other upgrades, the game 
> no longer
> >> loads- just the "sha-on hol". (Meanwhile on 8.04 it still works). 
> We asked
> >> Walla's support and they haven't changed anything.
> >>
> >> Any ideas how to work around this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Micha
> >>
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