News - 29-May-2008 The PHP has been updated to implement flushing, I had meant to include this originally but it honestly slipped my mind. The .NET version was already stream safe.

An issue is filed regarding ASP streams not working - currently ASP users won't be able to process data on the fly.

Why? The MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP hack the ASP version uses doesn't stream (although I've been reading MSDN and such facility is available).

As soon as I get round to things, I'll update the ASP version. Contributors are welcome to contact myself. ben (who lives at) curlyben.com

Summary A stop gap workaround for fuller HTTP response & request handling in web versions of Adobe Flash Player.

What it adds: (so far)

• HEAD, POST and GET
• Partial downloads
• Response headers

What it needs: (currently)

• ASP (IIS/Sun One)... or
• ASP.NET (IIS/Apache/others... or
• PHP (with fsock enabled)
• Flash 9/Flex SDK (free) to build
• Ability to serve cross_domain.xml over HTTP

Why? The latest Flash security sandbox, and the soon to be upon us sandbox will;

• Deny socket policies over HTTP, preventing custom implementations of HTTP without a socket server.
• Only load POST and GET URLRequests after pruning various headers

If shared host PHP, ASP and ASP.NET all allow true HTTP, then so should Flash - RedHerring was written as part of a project-in-a-day, but it helped enable so many of the previously possible uses flash.net.Socket did, it would be a shame not to share it.

RedHerring is licensed under The GNU LGPL