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Workaround for this Flash+HTTPS issue?

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:17 pm
by gm2
I have been pulling my hair out for days trying to figure this out... perhaps you guys can help.

I am trying to implement a specific flash gallery onto a domain in which I have a SSL Certificate.

The problem is, that this particular flash gallery 'calls home' to verify that you are using it on the domain that you have purchased a license for. We have purchased the license, however the act of accessing information outside of our domain is throwing up a nasty "get me out of here!" message and exiting the SSL connection.

I have been trying to contact the company that sells the flash gallery, however I am getting no response and I need to get this fixed.

Re: Workaround for this Flash+HTTPS issue?

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:50 pm
by Benjamin
Get a refund.

Re: Workaround for this Flash+HTTPS issue?

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:06 am
by josh
You can call your credit card company and ask for a charge back. Software companies hate when you do that because not only do you get your $ back, they get a fine and may loose the rights to accept credit cards online if enough people do it.

As for phoning home, you could use firebug or ethereal to trace the network communications. Find the domain name its requesting and search the project files for occurrences of that. If the code is obfuscated its not worth your time to be messing with anyways, but you could still potentially fix it. I would probably just do a charge back, and find a new script.

Re: Workaround for this Flash+HTTPS issue?

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:59 pm
by gm2
I've been digging through the code all day...
found a line of code that is the exact same as the validation "request" string that comes up in firebug... I comment out that line and it is still running from somewhere else...

As for a refund and alternative... I would love to but I can't find anything that even comes close as far as functionality/usability that we need.

Re: Workaround for this Flash+HTTPS issue?

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:39 pm
by josh
Can you show us the line of code & the request you saw in firebug?

Re: Workaround for this Flash+HTTPS issue?

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:20 am
by gm2
dug further into it. I decompiled the SWF and looked through the actionscript and found the same request. I'm not sure why it was in 2 locations, but it is. I gutted it out of the actionscript and recompiled it to see if that fixed matters, but it broke the code elsewhere AND still didn't keep the HTTPS intact. Looking further through the firebug commands, I found some direct "http://www..." links. So somewhere in the code is calling a direct link also.