271628 - Firefox does not handle Flash Player "BASE" Parameter for setting relative paths in movies

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[J Lamberes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The URL at the eng of this paragraph describes how Flash developers can add a
line of code in the HTML page to set the parameter "BASE". This tells the player
what domain to use as the base of all realtive paths inside the movie. This
works in IE but not Firefox. Of course if a movie depends on this parameter to
function, the movie and perhaps the website will not function.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tn4157.html

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a flash movie that loads another flash movie using a relative path ex.
loadMovie ("flash/meMovie.swf", "holder")
2.This works on a local PC but not on the server. So in IE, you can use the BASE
parameter to tell the movie what is the "base" of the relative path.
3.In IE it now works, in Firefoxc it doesn't

Comment 1

[xamar]

Firefox has problems with absolute (local) paths in flash. For example
C:/flash/index.html with in there a photoAlbum.swf won't load
C:/pictures/photos/holiday.jpg. IE does.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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