Loading Flash in an IE6/SSL Environment
Date : 2007 11 07 Category : Design & Usability
ParticletreeA post on the lessrain blog, Nasty XML Load Bug in IE6, just prevented my day from being ruined. Apparently, there are issues with a Flash object loading XML in a secure IE6 page, and the last thing anyone wants to do is spend hours tracking down some obscure bug. So if your working happily with secure Flash, and all of a sudden your data won’t load in IE6, the fix is simple:
header("Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate"); header("Pragma: public");You can read the comments on lessrain for more workarounds, but this did the trick for me. It seems that I’m late to the party since people have known about this since 2005, but I’m sure there is some poor soul out there not in the know. What can I say — I don’t work with Flash much.
