SWF Files

[Troy D]

I have some Flash SWF games on my website with advertising banners on them.
People access a certain game by going to
http://www.mysite.com/flashgame.htm. With IE no problem. But in Firefox they
can type in http://www.mysite.com/flashgame.swf and bypass my banners. The
banners help pay for me hosting these games.

Is there a way with javascript that I can tell when they are going directly
to the swf file instead of going to the htm page? And redirect them to the
htm file? Thanks a lot.

[-Lost]

Troy D wrote:

I have some Flash SWF games on my website with advertising banners on
them. People access a certain game by going to
http://www.mysite.com/flashgame.htm. With IE no problem. But in Firefox
they can type in http://www.mysite.com/flashgame.swf and bypass my
banners. The banners help pay for me hosting these games.

Is there a way with javascript that I can tell when they are going
directly to the swf file instead of going to the htm page? And redirect
them to the htm file? Thanks a lot.

No.

Just wondering though... what is to stop an Internet Explorer user from
loading your SWF in the address bar?

Anyway... if you have access to the server-side aspect of things, you
could use mod_rewrite to redirect all SWF requests back to their HTML
equivalents.

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[-Lost]

-Lost wrote:

Troy D wrote:

>I have some Flash SWF games on my website with advertising banners on
them. People access a certain game by going to
http://www.mysite.com/flashgame.htm. With IE no problem. But in
Firefox they can type in http://www.mysite.com/flashgame.swf and
bypass my banners. The banners help pay for me hosting these games.

Is there a way with javascript that I can tell when they are going
directly to the swf file instead of going to the htm page? And
redirect them to the htm file? Thanks a lot.

No.

Just wondering though... what is to stop an Internet Explorer user from
loading your SWF in the address bar?

Anyway... if you have access to the server-side aspect of things, you
could use mod_rewrite to redirect all SWF requests back to their HTML
equivalents.

Oh yeah, you could also check the URL via Flash. If it contains SWF
redirect to the HTML equivalents.

I know a lot of Flash designers who employ this method as a security
feature to protect their files.

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-Lost
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[Troy D]

Just wondering though... what is to stop an Internet Explorer user from

loading your SWF in the address bar?

Trying to view an swf file doesn't work if you go to
http://www.mydomain.com/thisgame.swf. Or it doesn't for me.

Anyway... if you have access to the server-side aspect of things, you
could use mod_rewrite to redirect all SWF requests back to their HTML
equivalents.

I will see about the mod_rewrite. Thanks.

[Troy D]

Just wondering though... what is to stop an Internet Explorer user from

loading your SWF in the address bar?

Trying to view an swf file, with IE7, doesn't work if you go to
http://www.mydomain.com/thisgame.swf. Or it doesn't for me.

Anyway... if you have access to the server-side aspect of things, you
could use mod_rewrite to redirect all SWF requests back to their HTML
equivalents.

I will see about the mod_rewrite. Thanks.

[Troy D]

Anyway... if you have access to the server-side aspect of things, you

could use mod_rewrite to redirect all SWF requests back to their HTML
equivalents.

Lost, got the mod_rewrite to do exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot.

[-Lost]

Troy D wrote:

>Anyway... if you have access to the server-side aspect of things, you
could use mod_rewrite to redirect all SWF requests back to their HTML
equivalents.

Lost, got the mod_rewrite to do exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot.

Glad everything worked out for ya'.

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