USING FLASH AS AN XML PROXY
by Phillip Perkins

Microsoft provides an ActiveX tool, the XMLHTTP component, for sending
data to Web servers within a client HTML page. Or, if you don't want to
use Microsoft technology, you can create a Java proxy to handle this
exchange of information. Another tool you might want to consider is Flash.

Flash can send XML data to Web servers through the XML object. This
object contains two methods for sending XML data to the server: send() and
sendAndLoad(). The first method sends the XML contents in the current XML
object to the Web server. The second method sends the current contents to
the server and loads the result XML to an XML object.

The only thing left is to interact with the data in the current HTML
page. You can use fscommand() to call JavaScript (or VBScript) functions
within the HTML page from Flash. If you know how to use this functionality,
you can create an XML proxy for your XML data.

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Phillip Perkins is a contractor with Ajilon Consulting. His experience
ranges from machine control and client/server to corporate intranet
applications.

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