Comments on: Determining which server/domain a SWF is hosted on

By: peterd

peterd — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:19:03 +0000

jlafferty,

You are welcome. That will be $3 please.

Peter

By: jlafferty

jlafferty — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:13:21 +0000

Thanks PD. I did a quick web search because I forgot how to do this and you had the answer. :)

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:29:49 +0000

Thanks for this solution peterd.
Congrats for the post.

Charles, www.tldsco.com

By: peterd

peterd — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:13:03 +0000

Wayne,

I don’t believe it does, but you could use the ExternalInterface API to get that information from your HTML container using JavaScript. For example, see “Returning values from JavaScript in your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API”.

Peter

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:39:34 +0000

peterd,
Very handy. Does URLUtil has functions to get referer and user agent, similar to PHP’s $_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’] and $_SERVER[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’]? Thank you.
Wayne

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:52:12 +0000

Thanks for this one peterd - I’d been scouring around all morning trying to find a solution like this!

By: peterd

peterd — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:30:06 +0000

Dasa, Yes, I believe you can use Application.application.url if you just have one main SWF (Application.application.url and Application.application.loaderInfo.url should return the same value), but if you're loading another Flex SWF using the SWFLoader control, I believe they start returning different values. For example, in the loaded SWF, I believe Application.application.loaderInfo.url returns the current losded SWF file's URL, whereas Application.application.url returns the parent SWFs URL. At least thats what I think.

By: Dasa

Dasa — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:54:29 +0000

Couldn’t you also just use Application.application.url ?

By: peterd

peterd — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:29:31 +0000

Charly,

Yep, its a String. If I would have displayed the full URL, it would have shown:
http://blog.flexexamples.com/wp-content/uploads/Application_loaderInfo_url_test/bin/main.swf

Although I used the URLUtil.getServerName() method to just return the server name, or just “blog.flexexamples.com”.

By: Charly

Charly — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:26:13 +0000

Hi,

what kind of dataType is returned from the loaderInfo.url? Must be a String…isn’t it?