Flash apps and SSL

[Dado]

I have 2 questions about SSL and flash:

1. Does flash standalone app based on OCX support both 40 bit and 128 bit SSL protocols (loadVariables)?

2.Does it depend ONLY of ocx file or as well of user´s system configuration (Internet Exolorer for example)?

Thanks in advance.

[Northcode]

It depends on what Internet Explorer is using because Flash uses IE (or WinINet actually) to do the dirty work of moving the bits across the wire

One warning when using Flash to do SSL is that if the server doesn't support SSL, Flash will automatically fail over to HTTP without telling you. So if https://domain.com doesn't exist but http://domain.com does, Flash will use http://domain.com which might be a completely different site!

SWF Studio (www.northcode.com) has an HTTP plugin that gives you a more control over your HTTP and HTTPS communications. You decide exactly which variables are sent, what headers to use and you can do things that Flash can't like proxy authentication and a LOT more.

[Dado]

Thanks Northcode, so wininet.dll does the job, good to know. Yes, SWF Studio is ocx based program so it supports SSL and TLS and default flash standalone player doesn't.