Different Behaviour within Flex and on Browser

Question

Hi,
I am using an XMLsocket in my problem (client and server on
the same machine).
As server I have modified slightly the java example from the
help (server on port 5050).
When I run my program within Flex (run button), program is
run, it connects and accepts
data from the server. When I try to run the program outside
flex (run the html in the browser),
then no connection seems to be made to the java program.
Are any settings of the browser (firefox) configured
differently when running through Flex?
server part:
socket = new ServerSocket(port);
incoming = socket.accept();
readerIn = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(incoming.getInputStream()));
// open up standard input
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
printOut = new PrintStream(incoming.getOutputStream());
printOut.println("Enter EXIT to exit.\r\0");
out("Enter EXIT to exit.\r");
boolean done = false;
while (!done)
//String str = readerIn.readLine();
String str = br.readLine();
out("Echo: " + str);
if(str.trim().equals("EXIT"))
done = true;
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when run outside flex, surprisingly I can see the:
"Enter EXIT to exit" on the screen but whenever i type
something
it does not appear on the Flex client. This works as it is
supposed to,
when executing within Flex...
thanks

Answer 1

When you say run from the browser.. is the request served by
a web server?
You may be running into crossdomain issues in the 2nd case. I
would suggest that you print the input stream data from the XML
Socket to see if its sending a request for crossdomain.xml? If that
is the case, you should first send the response with the policy
file back so that subsequent calls succeed.
Thanks,
Gaurav Jain
Flex SDK Team