Malformed POST request made to an absolute url with Flash

Sometimes you encounter bugs that smacks you in the face with their strangeness. And even when you defeated them you still have this sour taste of puzzlement.

I encountered one of them today.

While testing in a local environment and doing POST requests from Flash to a distant cake app, I could get the request just fine.

But when uploading the SWF on the server and embedding it in a Facebook App Iframe, the POST data seemed corrupted and I couldn't get it.

Replacing the distant POST call to a local one (removing the whole http:// part) fixed this strange bug.

So we ended by adding a check to see if we were online or local and make an absolute or relative call depending on the environment.

So far, no more issues.

Tags : #swf, #post, #actionscript, #bug, #flash

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