Shockwave Player ignoring proxy settings?

For security reasons, ALL outbound user traffic is proxied.
In at least some situations, the Shockwave player appears to
ignore browser proxy settings and make attempts to go
directly to Internet sites on ports 80,443,1935. This is filling up
our
firewall logs making them less useful for real
troubleshooting. The client should always use the HTTP proxy and
NEVER
attempt direct connections to Internet hosts. Can we control
this behavior on the client in any meaningful way? I have read:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/firewalls_proxy02.html#
and what we're seeing appears to be default behavior. Surely
this can be controlled client side and we are not at the whim
of the way the client is called by HTML served up from who
knows?
For an example of this, see --this is a Viagra ad...sorry,
but this is the one I was able to track down;-):
http://ads.pointroll.com/PortalServe/?pid=511654F38020070808222931&pos=h&flash=9&redir=htt p://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12jc7dq14/M=607608.11098438.11852106.8528710/D=sports/S=96625734: LREC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1194540739/A=4834290/R=0/id=CTURL/*$CTURL$&r=0.7514780048609885

I am running into the same issue with a few
sites...especially since the TCP timeout to realize that is has to
revert to a proxy is not conducive. I would think a client side or
registry setting would fix this, but cannot find where to change
that. Any ideas?

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Hi,
all clients our company must use a web-proxy to connect with the internet.
If anyone want to watch a stream with rtmp://....swf , nothing happens.
RTMP should work with port 1935 and fallback to 443, 80.
Problem: shockwave ignores the proxy settings from browser and Device. He tries to connect
directly without proxy, whitch is not working of course..
Are there any options to configure the proxy settings for Shockwave or is this a bug?
Thanks for any help!

I think you're looking for a Flash Player forum

Safari ignores proxy settings for AJAX requests?

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Hi,
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Please Help

Hi,
My problem sounds really similar. I connect to an exchange server at one university but when I am physically located in another university that I also work at I cannot access the server using the Mail program.
I don't really understand the details but I was able to use a program called PROXIFIER to force mail to use a SOCKS proxy (or something like that).
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Why sudo curl ignores proxy settings?

$ echo $http_proxy
http://my.proxy.com
$ curl -v http://files.com/a.txt
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# Correct downloading
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http://my.proxy.com
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$su
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Probably because sudo does not pass your environment variables along. Try:
sudo -E

Adobe flash player proxy settings?

hi there,
in addition to my other post regarding proxy solution for flash content...
does Adobe flash player have setting to force to use proxy? or any network configuration?
thanks in advance

Here is an interesting discussion regarding Flash Player and proxy settings http://www.techsupportforum.com/alternative-computing/mozilla-firefox-browsers/397364-diff erent-proxy-settings-flash-player.html

Web service client ignores http proxy settings

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Sorry about the delay,
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I've got a frustrating issue with proxies that I hope someone can shed some light on.
I've got a relatively normal networking set up (statically assigned IP address via local LAN), and any web access must be via a proxy. I've got my proxies set under networking options, and using Safari I can browse the web, and Software Update works. I have only one Location defined.
I also have a number of other pieces of software installed that access the web and supposedly use the proxies set under networking options. e.g. Version Tracker, Mac Fixit, and a couple of other lesser known pieces.
Now here's the annoying part; a lot of the time these pieces seem to ignore the proxy settings and try to go direct (I know this because I can see the packets bouncing off my gateway/firewall). Other times they will honour the proxy and work as expected (this seems to be the exception rather than the rule however :/ ).
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Well that prompted me to check again the most notable program I have that has this issue - Version Tracker.
So doing a "Check" results in a connect via HTTPS to the VT servers after the disks have been scanned, which works as expected and I can see the entry in my proxy logs.
CONNECT client.versiontracker.com:443 - DIRECT/66.179.48.104
Then clicking on one of the items that is available to update, which is supposed to load info about the package in the pane below the results, hits my firewall as it tries to go direct via HTTP. So VT is successfully using HTTPS, but not HTTP.
However, as stated originally, my HTTP proxy is definitely set and Safari, et al work when I try and test them. Now I know it's likely that VT itself has some issues in it's code, but I suspect there is something more than just a bug in VT going on here. I've noticed other apps not work as well (these failures are all HTTP). And sometimes VT works and returns the info screen (unless on some rare occasions VT decides to use HTTPS for these screens as well - however, I can't reproduce this; sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't).
So programmatically speaking, is there more than one way for an app to get proxy details? Does the system cache this result anywhere? Is it possible for something to interfere with this process or possibly corrupt any cache, etc? It certainly seems odd that an app can get back (and use) the HTTPS proxy details correctly but not the HTTP proxy details. :/

Flash Player Proxy Settings during Installation

Hi,
I am trying to install the lastest version of Adobe Flash Player but it doesnt work. I have a screen with Proxy settings.
Indeed,the enterprise use a proxy to connect on the internet but It doesn"t use the Port 80 ( it uses 3128). On the screen with the Proxy settings it is impossible to change the Port. How Can I do to continue the installation ?
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I'll ask around about the port settings, but in the mean time I'd recommend downloading the installers from this FAQ post:
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Hi All,
I've been pulling my hair out on this one for a while now and finally decided to see if someone can help me out.
In my office I have a intranet of numerous devices and pcs connected. There is also a proxy server on the network to allow connection through the the internet. I have my proxy settings setup to bypass the proxy for any addresses on my intranet. This is set in the normal way by adding ( http://192.168.1. to proxy settings exception list in IE. This proxy bypass list works fine for all other situation except the following:
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I'm using the following...
Java version: 1.6 1.6.0_17
Operating system: ( I've tried XP and Vista)

I have the same problem, please anyone can help?

I can't download Shockwave Player

I have done a silly thing. I downloaded Shockwave Player without any problems. I looked in Add/Remove programmes in Win7 to see if it was recorded and accidentally double clicked on the entry and uninstalled Shockwave. I tried to re-install and it wouldn't so thinking there were traces of the prog in the registry I did a system restore and tried again. When I click the download button the installation page appears but Installation Complete does not appear and nothing happens. There can not be a problem with any settings because the prog downloaded first time without any problems. I am using Win7 64 Bit with IE8 32 Bit. Does anyone have any suggestions please?

Thanks very much for your help. I toiled late into the night trying to sort this out. Eventually I downloaded from FileHippo but during the installation there was an error message stating that a file could not be found. (SwDir.dll). I was invited to "Ignore" which I did and the installation completed successfully. It seems that in a number of places on the Adobe site it states that Shockwave is located in C:\Windows\system32\Adobe\ but on my computer it is in C:\Windows\sysWOW64\Adobe and this is where SwDir.dll resides. The odd thing is that first time round Shockwave installed without any problems. Anyway all seems to be working according to the test that you provided a link for so thanks.

Hallelujah, finally disabled OOPP. I use Firefox 9.0.1 and will not upgrade to anything that ignores my settings. Been looking for this info for years!

As soon as Firefox came out with OOPP, I immediately asked how to permanently disable it and had a Firefox developer straight-up lie to me and say it couldn't be done without downgrading. Thank GOODNESS for the instructions on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/713600?page=1 Finally, finally I have excised the hated OOPP!
I run Firefox 9.0.1 and will not upgrade, ever, unless I see signs that Mozilla has radically altered its development direction and discarded most of the boneheaded, broken, anti-user development that has gone into versions more recent than Firefox 1.x. Actually making your mission statement more than an empty promise might be a good place to start.
Let's see...anything else? Oh yeah, any developer who advocates overriding or ignoring user settings, or taking control away from the user, should be kicked off the team. (and investigated as a possible Government mole, but that's a lot to ask for). I hear Konqueror and Safari are looking for new devs. It gets old fast when you try to get support and instead get haughty "You're doing it wrong, stop doing that" responses. I'm doing exactly what I intend to be doing and if you can't support that, someone else will. If you really gave a damn about your users, you might start by backporting security fixes to previous versions instead of spewing out a cacophony of incompatible new versions so rapidly you end up confusing and alienating users and making them switch updates off entirely. I mean seriously, what happens when Firefox hits triple digits? You could stick a decimal in front of it, and name that build after a historic baseball player who had that batting average. But even then you will run out of players in a few months.
It's truly sad. I switched to Firefox because it was the best browser. But Firefox has been backsliding horribly since around 2.0, and the other browsers seem to be in about the same boat. Firefox IS still the best browser - but only if you use an ancient, unsupported version. That's a big problem.

Using an obsolete version released [http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/9.0.1/releasenotes/ December 11th 2011] is the exact definition of downgrading. It exposes your system to all the security vulnerabilities that have been fixed since then.
* https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html
Out-of-process plug-ins was made mandatory on Windows Vista and later because Adobe don't test Flash Player's protected mode with OOPP disabled. This change didn't happen until Firefox 14, so there was no need to go as far back as Firefox 9.0.1.
If you absolutely have to, you can disable OOPP by creating the ''MOZ_DISABLE_OOP_PLUGINS'' environment variable and setting its value to '''1'''. Firefox must be restarted for the change to take effect. This works in the current version of Firefox, so there's no need to use obsolete insecure versions.<br>
If you don't know how to create an environment variable, see the following article for instructions (the "Using the Custom Environment Variable" section is not relevant).
* [http://www.howtogeek.com/51807/how-to-create-and-use-global-system-environment-variables/ How to Use Global System Environment Variables | How-To Geek]

Steps to apply Proxy settings for all Server in a specific OU using Group Policy ?

People,
I have several terminal server (2008 R2) running as RDSH in an OU called Terminal Servers.
So how can I create the GPO setting to make sure that everyone who login to this terminal server will be getting the proxy settings automatically to proxy.domain.com on port 3128 ?
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/* Server Support Specialist */

> I've created the GP object and then link it directly to the Terminal
> Servers OU using the following options:
>
> User Configuration (Enabled) > Policies > Windows Settings > Internet
> Explorer Maintenance >
> Connection/Proxy Settings > Enable proxy settings
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Link your policy to the OUs where the users are, then use item level
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the servers after changing group memberships...
Greetings/Grüße,
Martin
Mal ein
gutes Buch über GPOs lesen?
Good or bad GPOs? - my blog…
And if IT bothers me -
coke bottle design refreshment (-:
Martin,
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Adobe Shockwave Player version 11.5.1.601 download problem

Whenever I try to download version 11.5.1.601it will go about one quarter ways through installation process then I get the message:
Error opening file for writing:
C:/WINDOWS/system32/Adobe/Director/np32dsw.dll
Click Abort to stop the installation,
Retry to try again, or
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Try this
download http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/default/english/win95nt/latest/Shockwave_In staller_Slim.exe (save to disk);
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P.S. The Shockwave Player forum is here http://forums.adobe.com/community/webplayers/webplayers_shockwave

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