Flex Examples » URLUtil http://blog.flexexamples.com Just a bunch of Adobe Flex Examples Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:09:51 +0000 en hourly 1 Determining which server/domain a SWF is hosted on http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/09/determining-which-serverdomain-a-swf-is-hosted-on/ http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/09/determining-which-serverdomain-a-swf-is-hosted-on/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:12:08 +0000 Peter deHaan http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/09/determining-which-serverdomain-a-swf-is-hosted-on/ Here’s a handy tip which can help you when deploying Flex applications on mulitple servers (such as a staging/production server). Basically you can listen for the Application tag to dispatch the applicationComplete event, grab the URL of the SWF using the loaderInfo.url property, and then use the URLUtil.getServerName() method to parse out the server name.

[...]]]> Here’s a handy tip which can help you when deploying Flex applications on mulitple servers (such as a staging/production server). Basically you can listen for the Application tag to dispatch the applicationComplete event, grab the URL of the SWF using the loaderInfo.url property, and then use the URLUtil.getServerName() method to parse out the server name.

Full code after the jump.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/09/determining-which-serverdomain-a-swf-is-hosted-on/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" applicationComplete="init()">
 
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.utils.URLUtil;
 
            private function init():void {
                lbl.text = "url=" + URLUtil.getServerName(Application.application.loaderInfo.url);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
 
    <mx:Label id="lbl" text="" />
 
</mx:Application>

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