Forums: Flash:

So I'm just gonna post this here, cause I am really really unhappy, but now I've solved it, and maybe one day it will help someone else. I've just spent a nightmarish 5 hours trying to figure out why the file i'm working on locally couldn't connect to my remote server successfully, when it was connecting quite happily before.

Now I've always known that flash player will cache any files loaded (eg images) using IE. So to clear the cache, you gotta open up IE and clear it there, and then its cleared for the flash player. What I didn't know was that flash player will only CONNECT if IE is "connected" - ie., not in "Working Offline" mode. This is the case even if IE is not running at the moment - if you closed it in "offline" mode - that's what it remembers.

So, this morning, when I was browsing a site in IE (I had to because the site was not optimized for FF), IE decided to go into offline mode (which it seems to do quite regularly, anyway...stupid), and then I spent 5 hours pulling my hair out and wondering why flash player won't connect. I did many things to try and work it out (many many many), but sure enough - open up IE and set it to "connect" and voila.

Oh how the hatred builds.

thanks for posting that - I'll try to remember the lesson!

I'm surprised that the Flash Player is tied to IE in that way - that's pretty nasty.

Surely only when IE is set to default?

But that could explain a couple of issues I've had recently.

hmmm no i don't think so hey? - i got FF as default...will look into....