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add support for Flash clients #21

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 

More info here:

http://bc-dev.net/projects/fmud/

http://bc-dev.net/2008/05/14/security-changes-in-flash-player-901240/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hello.ja...@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2009 at 8:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It does not look to me like FMud is open source, even though it has an OSI 
approved
license. I'm not really a big fan of flash either....

Original comment by miss...@hotmail.com on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 

Well.. my reasoning here was that:

1) It can be a 5 min fix since it's just a matter of detecting the client is in 
Flash 
and changing  self.delimiter to '\0'   instead of '\n'

2) Given the odds for MUDs these days, anything that helps lower the barrier to 
MUDs 
these days would be worth a shot. If you think at who is going to try MUDs, 
many of 
them are kids and having to dabble on install putty or having to decide on a 
Java 
Client in Windows (which many are proprietary and payed for, btw) that could be 
a 
hassle. Flash, on the other hand, is "just there" embedded in the web page. 
It's also 
available and in the XBox I think and in some phones.

Ultimately, I try to think at commercial and open source technologies as being 
able to 
'seed' each other as opposed to just compete or block out each other.

Under this perspective, if enough ppl are using FMud to play in a browser, that 
would 
help encorage an open source enthusiast to create an open source version of it, 
which 
is by no means ultra hard.

Just my personal way of seeing it, thou.

Original comment by hello.ja...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2009 at 10:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ah.... so you just want to fix TZMud to work with Fmud.

I see no problem with that.

I thought you wanted to include Fmud in the web interface.

If you can say how to detect those clients, I will apply the patch.

Original comment by miss...@hotmail.com on 24 Jan 2009 at 12:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 

I checked with the FMud developer and the delimiter thing will not be a 
problem. 

So the only requirement should be to serve a security policy file in ways that 
meet
the specific requirements enforced by the plugin.

Technical details can be found thru this link:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security.html

But I'd keep this in ultra-low priority until someone is interested in running 
TZMud
online.

Original comment by hello.ja...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2009 at 12:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
FYI, I've been using http://shellinabox.com to provide a web interface to MU*s. 
It is AJAX to the client, and the best solution for it so far (seems that web 
filters and such will accept this in cases where a similar solution in flash 
and java wouldn't be accepted...).

Original comment by mindboos...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2011 at 12:38