Flash 8 FileReference Upload on SSL???

Hi,

I spent hours (no, days!) trying to work this out. I develop online web applictions and needed to use FileReference over SSL.

If you have got everything else sorted, all you need to do is to specify ':443' after the domain name to are uploading/downloading from. And of course make sure you have 'https'! So for example:

blahblah.upload('https://www.yourdomain.com:443/files/stuff/whatever')

Flash defaults to using port 80, which is for http. Even if you specify https at the beginning of the URL.

I really hope this works for you. I know how frustrating this can be!!

Miles

Hi Miles,

Thank you for coming back to me :-)

I have tried your solution and unfortunatley i am a little uncear as to where the port is specified.

The setup i have is all the contents of http://www.tink.ws/blog/files/flash8/FileReference.zip
uploaded into a folder called "upload"

so the path to this folder is:

https://www.mysite.co.uk/upload/UploadExample.html

I have changed the tags in the html page to be https.

Obviously if i enter https://www.mysite.co.uk:443/upload/UploadExample.html nothing happens so i then have gone through the imported .as file shown below:

Would i change: success = this._fileRef.upload(UploadExample.URL);

to: success = this._fileRef.upload(https://www.mysite.co.uk:443/upload/); ???

Any further help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

spiroosx




/////////////////////////////////////////////
//Imports
/////////////////////////////////////////////
import mx.utils.Delegate;

import mx.controls.TextArea;
import mx.controls.ProgressBar;
import mx.controls.Button;

import flash.net.FileReference;
/////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////



class UploadExample extends MovieClip
{
      
      
      
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //Components
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //TextArea component
      private var _textArea:TextArea;
      //ProgressBar component
      private var _progressBar:ProgressBar;
      //Button components
      private var _browse_btn:Button;
      private var _upload_btn:Button;
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //FileReference object
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      private var _fileRef:FileReference;
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //server script configured to handle upload through HTTP POST calls
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      private static var URL:String = "upload.php";
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      
      
      
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //Constructor
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      public function UploadExample()
      {
            super();
      }
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      
      
      
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //onLoad
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      private function onLoad():Void
      {
            this._textArea.fontSize = 15;

            this._progressBar.mode = "manual";
            
            this._browse_btn.label = "Browse";
            this._browse_btn.onPress = Delegate.create(this, this.browse);
            
            this._upload_btn.label = "Upload";
            this._upload_btn.onPress = Delegate.create(this, this.upload);
            
            this._fileRef = new FileReference();
            this._fileRef.addListener(this);
      }
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////


      
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //Button events
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      private function browse():Void
      {
            var success:Boolean;
            
            //open OS window and specify a description for each group and the file types allowed in that group
            success = this._fileRef.browse([{description: "All Formats (*.jpg,*.gif,*.png,*.swf)", extension: "*.jpg;*.gif;*.png;*.swf", macType: "JPEG;jp2_;GIFF;SWFL"},
                                                            {description: "All Image Formats (*.jpg,*.gif,*.png)", extension: "*.jpg;*.gif;*.png", macType: "JPEG;jp2_;GIFF"},
                                                            {description: "Flash Movies (*.swf)", extension: "*.swf", macType: "SWFL"}]);
            
            //if the OS window failed to open
            if(success == false)
            {
                  this._textArea.text += "OS window failed to open\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
                  
                  this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
            }
      }
      
      
      
      private function upload():Void
      {
            var success:Boolean;
            
            //start upload process
            success = this._fileRef.upload(UploadExample.URL);
            
            //if the upload process failed to start
            if(success == false)
            {
                  this._textArea.text += "upload process failed to start\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
                  
                  this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
            }
      }
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
            
            
      
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      //FileReference events
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      private function onSelect(fileRef:FileReference):Void
      {      
            this._textArea.text += "file selected to upload\n\n";
            
            this._textArea.text += "file details\n";
            this._textArea.text += "name: " + fileRef.name + "\n";
            this._textArea.text += "type: " + fileRef.type + "\n";
            this._textArea.text += "size: " + fileRef.size + "\n";
            this._textArea.text += "creator: " + fileRef.creator + "\n";
            this._textArea.text += "created: " + fileRef.creationDate + "\n";
            this._textArea.text += "last modified: " + fileRef.modificationDate + "\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
            
            this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
      }
      
      
      
      private function onOpen(fileRef:FileReference):Void
      {
            this._textArea.text += "upload started\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
            
            this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
      }
      
      
      
      private function onProgress(fileRef:FileReference, loaded_num:Number, total_num:Number):Void
      {
            this._progressBar.setProgress(loaded_num, total_num);
      }
      
      
      
      private function onComplete(fileRef:FileReference):Void
      {
            this._progressBar.setProgress(100, 100);
            
            this._textArea.text += "upload successful\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
            
            this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
      }
      
      
      
      private function onCancel():Void
      {
            this._textArea.text += "OS window dismissed\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
      }
      
      
      
      private function onHTTPError(fileRef:FileReference):Void
      {
            this._textArea.text += "onHTTPError: " + fileRef.name + "\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
                  
            this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
      }
      
      
      
      private function onIOError(fileRef:FileReference):Void
      {
            this._textArea.text += "onIOError: " + fileRef.name + "\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
            
            this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
      }
      
      
      
      private function onSecurityError(fileRef:FileReference, error_str:String):Void
      {
            this._textArea.text += "onSecurityError: " + fileRef.name + "   error : " + error_str + "\n////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////\n\n";
            
            this._textArea.vPosition = this._textArea.maxVPosition;
      }
      /////////////////////////////////////////////
      /////////////////////////////////////////////



}

Hi Miles.

Thank you very much - you have made my week :-)

That works great

Cheers

spiroosx

Hello Spiroosx,

I am very pleased to be of assistance! Good luck with the project...

Miles