[RESOLVED] Writing an irc client

[slicer4ever]

hello, i'm running into major problems with writing an irc client, it works perfectly when i execute it through flash, but when i upload it to a site, it won't connect, i understand that i need an crossdomain file, i've been doing alot of research, and can't make head's or tails

debugging shows that even though i do: Security.loadPolicyFile("http://example.com/crossdomain.xml");, it still attempts to read an crossdomain file from the target irc server, however, i don't have control over the target machine(nor should that be necessary), how do i get around this, or what am i doing wrong?

what i really need, is a simple example of connecting to an server that i don't control to load some resources(i.e grabbing an image), where all the crossdomains file's sit, and how it's generally done, googling around, it seems this information isn't as easy to come by as i thought

edit: also, i'm using raw sockets to connect to the irc server, if that makes a diffrence

edit: alright, been reading alot more information, it looks like i do need to have a policy file to connect to said server, which is beyond retarded, please, someone tell me there's a way around this, but that doesn't explain why it works through flash?

[moagrius]

to load data from a different domain, you need either:

1. the server with the data file - the one you're loading from - must allow the domain that hosts the swf via a crossdomain policy file.

or...

2. a proxy file. this is actually very simple - you just host a file on your server that outputs the contents of the file on the remote server. it can be as simple as:

<?php
readfile("http://www.example.com/whatever.ext");
?>

then you just load that file instead of the remote file.

[slicer4ever]

unfortuantly, i don't have access to the specified remote server, and using a proxy isn't available to me, since i need to maintain an active connection, rather than using techniques such as polling, i've since moved onto using a java<->javascript<->flash bridge for my socket needs, and it's working nicely, not as effective as i want, but i'll have to wait until javascript WebSocket's are more widely available before i can drop java, or flash change's it's security structure(unlikly)