[casual_games] re: Flash Local Storage Issue

[Hal Barwood]

My understanding of the Flash security sandbox is -- permission to 
create a locally stored object or net access, but not both.  If the game 
in question is downloaded and playing on a local machine, access to an 
LSO is perfectly legit, but Flash never allows explicit access to the 
directory structure, right?

One of the major Flash pains is Adobe's idea of changing local Flash 
Player settings and permissions by forcing a trip to a web page.  Ai yi yi.

My advice is, structure all your data in a Flash object and use LSOs. 
Is there a better way?


Steven Davis wrote:
> Dimitrios -
> 
> You are running into an inherent part of the Flash security sandbox. Flash SHOULDN'T permit access to the file system without explicit user authorization. The Shared Object feature may be a better way to avoid triggering this check or, even better, using server side storage via an HTTP POST or a cookie. Java's applet security sandbox also should trigger the same sort of security check.
> 
> The big question is... why do you need file system access? I would be happy to address this either online or off.
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