Flash fails through proxy

Question

I've seen this thread but no real answers. I'm trying to listen to audio on MySpace through the flash player. (myspace.com/fatwreck) I see the connection bypass my proxy settings and try to go direct over 1935 then 443 then 80, but it never trys to tunnel through the proxy. I'd expect it to fall back to 1935 tunneled over port 80. No go. Is this a failure in the Flash programming on the site? Is this expected behavior? ;-< Anyone have any suggestions to fix this? Allowing any of these port access direct access to the Internet is not a solution for me. Thanks for any suggestions.

Answer 1

Hi Earl,
The 'problem' is that the #HOST# substitution string in the Region Source for the Flash chart, will be using the fully qualified address for your internal machine rather than picking up the settings (particularly the port) from the requested server.
In other words, if you have -
Publically Accessible Server - running on port 80
Internal machine - running on port 7780 (for example)
then the #HOST# substitution would use port 7780 (which would not be routable from the public facing site).
There are a couple of workarounds, including passing through the host and port through to your mod_plsql environment, e.g. adding this to your DAD -
PlsqlCGIEnvironmentList    HTTP_HOST=<public hostname>:<public_port>for example -
PlsqlCGIEnvironmentList    HTTP_HOST=foo.com:80This might, of course bring it's own problems if you rely on using HTTP_HOST internally in your processing, but as you can imagine there's ways to work around that too (which I'll share if you need to, otherwise I'd just be typing it for no reason!).
As another workaround, you can edit the region source for your Flash charts and replace the #HOST# string with a 'correct' hard-coded value appropriate for your environment, but long term this isn't a great solution.
Hope this helps,
John.