What is the xmlsocket: // protocol?
This SO answer says "Flash Player is now looking for a policy file on port 843". I have a policy server listening on port 843, which is sending out-of-policy XML to Flash clients. It's enough? What is the "xmlsocket: //" protocol? Is this just a way to tell the Flash player that we are talking about sockets when using the loadPolicyFile () method ?
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As I understand it, there are two different types of policy files, cross-domain policies for loading data from an external domain, and policy files for socket connections. Both policy files are very similar in that they use a similar structured XML data structure.
I believe the protocol xmlsocket://
is just a pseudo- protocol in which it instructs a method Security.loadPolicyFile
to load a policy regarding sockets rather than a cross-domain policy for accessing external data.
More information can be found on this Livedoc page.
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