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Post June 21st, 2005, 3:13 pm

Due to the security risks in allowing remote Flash files to load in the forum we have decided to remove the bbcode which allows you to post flash in posts and in footers. We are sorry for this inconvience, but the risks are too great as Flash can allow malicious users to read members cookies and store them remotely. By doing that they could gain access to any member's account, including moderators and do things that would jeapordize this board.

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Post June 22nd, 2005, 7:45 am

not sure if I can ask this question here

however, would this flash story apply to games in one's forum arcade too, please?

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Post June 22nd, 2005, 10:20 am

If you are talking about your own forum and your own installed games, no. What Bigwebmaster is refering to is allowing people to post flash code in sigs and posts that we have no control over.
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Post June 22nd, 2005, 1:04 pm

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Post June 22nd, 2005, 7:16 pm

Just letting you know I think we found a solution.

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Web pages that source Flash movies can pass a new parameter to the Macromedia Flash Player from the HTML code (PARAM tag for Internet Explorer, EMBED tag for Netscape Navigator).

This parameter is called "AllowScriptAccess". It can have two possible values: "always" and "never".

When AllowScriptAccess is "never", outbound scripting (ActionScript getURL() actions that specify a scripting statement) will always fail.
When AllowScriptAccess is "always", outbound scripting will always succeed.
If AllowScriptAccess is not specified by an HTML page, it defaults to "always".


You can read about the entire problem and solution here:

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/securi ... 02-08.html

We may re-enable the flash bbcode after investigating further.
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Post September 7th, 2005, 11:08 pm

Hmm... is there by any chance that you may re-enable it?
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Post September 7th, 2005, 11:17 pm

No. Too much security risk. Sorry.
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