Flash and XML: A Developer's Guide

the World In this chapter we learn to link to third-party publishers of XML content. Our goal is to acquire and manipulate content in XML format...

Macromedia observes a security principle sometimes known as an origin check or domain perimeter. In this case, the principle forbids ActionScript from loading XML data...

Our strategy to defeat Macromedia's domain perimeter policy is to create a server script that resides in our domain space. This script is not limited...

The proxy isn't very interesting until we create a client that will use it. In particular, we want a Flash client that allows us to...

RSS is a simple XML format popularized originally by Netscape to describe the content of web sites. Aggregators, metasites, and search systems developed tools for...

Our application has two basic screens. One shows a selection of URLs, each pointing to an RSS file, and allows the user to choose one...

We have begun to develop socket programming skills. We have created a simple set of HTTP functions to allow us to build an XML proxy...