Comments on: Flash: Nasty XML load bug in Internet Explorer

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:28:29 +0000

I have been using a couple of Flash components from flashxml for some time and I would like to point out that they have always worked when loading from a secure location on my sites. The way they by-passed the cache problems was by adding a ?uid generated number at the end of their XML files according to the server’s time. This way, every time you refresh the page the XML gets a new UID and this stops the cache problem.
You can see it for this component, but they also have the same system implemented for all their other stuff. If you are interested you can try it at http://www.flashxml.net/image-scroller.html

By: Soumya Vinod

Soumya Vinod — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:16:05 +0000

Found another relatively simpler way to do the same,posted at http://bbso.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/loading-xml-in-flash-as3

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:55:22 +0000

Many thanks! Same solution as David Kenyon worked for me too. For the record the problem occurs in IE8 but not IE9 in my experience.

My setup = Apache + PHP + XML -> Flash CS3 + HTTPS + facebook

By: david kenyon

david kenyon — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:22:19 +0000

For the love of god!! Thank you for this thread.
session_start();
header(”Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate”);
header(”Pragma: public”);
(on the PHP page being posted to - for those that missed that)

eventually was the magic ticket for me running https + PHP + flash8 using sendAndLoad + IE. Total waste of a day but at least not 2 days

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:36:33 +0000

I’m glad I found this entry, I was doubting my code when it was IE inadequacies all along!

This worked for me at the top of my php page, notice I openned the session then set the header:

session_start();
header(”Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate”);
header(”Pragma: public”);

By: Dipanwita

Dipanwita — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:11:02 +0000

header(’Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate’);
header(’Pragma: public’);

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:33:53 +0000

i had the same problem for https and was solved by the solution of neil
<% response.setHeader(”cache-control”,”cache, must-revalidate”);%>
<% response.setHeader(”Pragma”,”public”);%>

thanks neil

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:27:23 +0000

amazing! I can’t believe you ever even tracked this down. I owe you HUGE

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:51:30 +0000

Thank you sooo much. Its taken me 2 days to fix this problem - I might have guessed it was a bug in IE that is now at least 4 years old and has travelled from IE6 to IE7 and now IE8!

Why oh why don’t MS give up on IE and force people to use browsers that actually work!

Problem was solved in php by putting:
header(”Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate”);
header(”Pragma: public”);
after
session_start();

Thanks again!

By: ds r4

ds r4 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:46:08 +0000

Thanx for the information. After some testing the “sessioncachelimiter” in php was causing the xml file to be cached indefinitely.

By: coolProgrammer

coolProgrammer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:16:45 +0000

Thanks. This helped a lot. You rock!!!

By: Willem

Willem — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:19:36 +0000

Thanks for this hint. Setting the Cache-Control header to “private” instead of “no-cache” solved this problem.

By: tetsui

tetsui — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:43:36 +0000

I have a great idea. All those in the web design/dev arena decide on a date when we all stop using ie6. It will be a unified push to get rid of the enemy. I think we have pandered to its oppresive regine far too long, lets stand up for “ie must die day”, spread the word!

By: Bryn

Bryn — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:46:24 +0000

Thanks ever so much for posting this, as it was turning what should have been a simple HTTP -> HTTPS migration into a major pain in the rear.

A few quick PHP headers later and the problem was solved.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:13:30 +0000

I’m going to fill this comment with as many keywords as possible on the offchance I need to Google for this page again at some point the future. Apologies for that.

We’re running Oracle’s Apex (Application Express) software on a number of servers behind a Zeus ZXTM load balancing solution. The load balancers add in an SSL layer and rewrite all HTTP requests to HTTPS. Communication between the load balancers and the Apex servers is just HTTP (i.e. there’s no SSL on the web servers themselves).

We were having problems getting the Flash charts on any of the pages to load/appear when running IE. They’d appear perfectly with Firefox or Opera. Oddly, when going to the servers directly (i.e. not through the load balancers, coincidently bypassing the SSL layer too) IE did work.

After some Googling I found this page and after reading the comments was able to create a very simple ‘response’ rule with Zeus’ TrafficScript scripting language which gave us a solution:

http.setResponseHeader(”Cache-Control”,”cache, must-revalidate”);
http.setResponseHeader(”Pragma”,”public”);

Many thanks!

By: Carl Malartre

Carl Malartre — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:01:22 +0000

This also cause trouble with loading crossdomain.xml files over https. Same solution work.

Carl

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By: mirc

mirc — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:45:27 +0000

hi thank you for the info

By: vaske

vaske — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:57:14 +0000

If I try some suggestion I got the following.

The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

The server did not understand the request, or the request was invalid. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm...

By: vaske

vaske — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:41:36 +0000

I still have the same problem, but my problem is in following on IE 6/7 my flash slide gallery based on XML it’s loaded but not shown…white screen..but if I resize browser window it’s there. Does anyone have any idea about this.