GetURL / LoadVars with POSTing values

Question

Hi
Seems like there are lots of getURL / LoadVar problems and
this one seems bizarre to me.
I am trying to submit form entries in Flash to an external
perl script. I understand that locally Flash won't function with
getURL now, so have uploaded it to my server and tried testing it.
I tried just calling a getURL from within Flash with the
following:
wholeString = "
http://myHost.com/cgi-bin/FormMailer.pl?recipient=1&subject=NewFlashTest";
getURL(wholeString,"_self", "POST");
I know that the perl script and this format function as I've
sent the following from a form within my website:
<form method="post" action="
http://myhost.com/cgi-bin/FormMailer.pl?recipient=1&subject=NewTest">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="1" />
<!--input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Webdesign
feedback form" /-->
Name: <input type="text" name="name" /><br />
Address: <input type="text" name="mail_address"
/><br />
E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" /><br />
Telephone: <input type="text" name="telephone"
/><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
This HTML form functioned exactly as it should. However, my
Flash script did call the function, but the perl script returned
saying that no recipient was passed to it. Yet the complete URL,
including the recipient value is contained in the address bar of
IE.
So, I tried with LoadVars instead. I tried this:
myObject = new LoadVars();
myObject.recipient = 1;
myObject.subject = "Testing of LoadVars";
myObject.name = "with LoadVars";
myObject.email = "[email protected]";
myObject.send("
http://myhost.com/cgi-bin/FormMailer.pl"
,"_self","POST" );
At the moment this is situated in a function called from an
onRelease on a button.
However, this appeared to do nothing and I receive nothing
from the perl script mailer.
Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

When you use your form you are sending the variables
recipient and subject using both methods, GET and POST. Maybe this
is why the script works because it depends on this fact (it is not
the right thing to do though).
In your second example using LoadVars change the last line
to:
myObject.send("
http://myhost.com/cgi-bin/FormMailer.pl?recipient=1&subject=NewTest",
"_self", "POST");
This way you'll be doing the same as your form is doing.
If on the other hand it still doesn't work maybe it is due to
security restrictions. If the host you are calling for example is
myHost.com from flash the this is the same domain you need to use
for the html page that contains the flash file. Otherwise flash
will be blocked. Flash blocks itself from sending and reding data
from internet if the file is in your local machine and viceversa.
It blocks comunication too when the file is not in the same domain.
Even if the domain is the same but you write it different. For
example if you have your own server you can start you app using the
domain localhost. But if flash is calling data using 127.0.0.1 then
flash will block communication even though both ways of
communication refer to the same server.