Comments on: FMud version 0.8 released

By: Adkins

Adkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:30:21 +0000

Good News… It works:D I found since my system did not have a default Policy file… I had to bind flashpolicyd.py to another port besides 843… since it takes root to do so on that specific port. I then had to match the policy_port for the client to match the port in which the python file was listening on. That was what was causing the entire security issue.

Thank you for all your support in this matter. The read me in this regard could be a bit more specific for n00bs like myself:P But I love the system in place.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:23:38 +0000

The flash log shows the following:

Error: Failed to load policy file from xmlsocket://drigon.com:843

This suggests that either you are not serving the policy file on port 843 or that your firewall is blocking access to port 843.

By: Adkins

Adkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:15:53 +0000

I have tried the standard config… and used the python script to designate multiple ports… 9998, 4200, 443, 80, 843… Each gives me the same result:

Trying to connect to drigon.com:4201
Unable to connect: security error

By: Adkins

Adkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:44:40 +0000

Is this an issue where I have to be root?

By: Adkins

Adkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:40:57 +0000

So close… I am getting a policy error now

By: matt

matt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:37:04 +0000

You have an error on line 36:

FLASHVARS=”drigon.com&port=4201&title=Pandora&policy_port=843″>

should be:

FLASHVARS=”host=drigon.com&port=4201&title=Pandora&policy_port=843″>

By: Adkins

Adkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:30:39 +0000

Please have a look at this… http://pastebin.com/m227b4e64

then look at http://drigon.com/~adkins/FMud/Fmud.html

By: matt

matt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:05:48 +0000

The stock server I was running had crashed but the demo is back up now.

You can see the policy file I am using at http://bc-dev.net/files/flashpolicy.xml.txt

Just view the source on the demo page to see how it’s embedded but it’s pretty much identical to the included example html file I think.

You need to be root to bind port 843, which is why I added the policy_port parameter for those who need/want to serve the policy file on a different port.

I hope to release a small update later this week which will fix a few issues, including one where the client doesn’t auto connect.

By: Adkins

Adkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:47:11 +0000

I change the html file as well as the xml file… When trying to connect it shows null: 4201. It does not seem to be reading the domain/host strings from the files. I have included the full path to the swf file.. as well as tried using the IP of 127.0.0.1. I took a look at the demo, it also does not seem to be working… Neither does the one on another persons site. Can you post a working copy of the configuration up so I can look at what I am doing wrong. Is the Policy Port required? Running ./flashpolicyd.py returns Permission Denied for port 843.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:25:35 +0000

The display uses an HTML component so tabs aren’t recognised I’m afraid. I wasn’t aware that many MUDs used tabs tbh so I hadn’t considered it a problem.