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Michal Slocinski	Saturday 29 December 2007 12:58:00 pm Hi, My problem is that SWF files added as eZ publish objects sometimes do not load on the web page. Sometimes means in ~30% cases. I can see it in firebug extension to Firefox that only 52 of 82 kB of the file is downloaded which prevents flash player from playing it. Funny thing is that I couldn't replicate this issue with IE, it seems like only Firefox is affected. But on the other hand - there is plenty of other pages with Flash objects and I didn't notice similar problem before. So it's pretty likely that it's not eZ publish problem but some strange mixture of Firefox + eZ publish + Apache. I'm using default Flash class which renders itself like this: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="125" height="415"> <param name="movie" value="/index.php/en/content/download/75/292/logo.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="play" value="true" /> <param name="loop" value="true" /> <embed src="/index.php/en/content/download/75/292/logo.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" width="125" height="415" play="true" loop="true" > </embed> </object> Maybe you had similar experiences or some hints where to look at? Michal
Michal Slocinski	Monday 31 December 2007 6:24:47 am for curious - problem solved itself by restarting the browser :-) I wonder why I didn't get this idea earlier but - what it means is that currently browsers are more like operating systems and you need to reboot every some time :-]
Piotrek Karaś	Monday 31 December 2007 6:35:30 am I'd expect a browser to be consistent in its behavior, and so HTTP server. As long as I understand your problem, I would check if the browser's cache isn't trying to serve a file that it had not fully downloaded, but that's just a guess. That's why clearing the cache or restarting the browser might have helped. But as you say, doesn't seem to be eZ related... -- Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585 eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu

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Saturday 29 December 2007 12:58:00 pm

Hi,

My problem is that SWF files added as eZ publish objects sometimes do not load on the web page. Sometimes means in ~30% cases. I can see it in firebug extension to Firefox that only 52 of 82 kB of the file is downloaded which prevents flash player from playing it. Funny thing is that I couldn't replicate this issue with IE, it seems like only Firefox is affected. But on the other hand - there is plenty of other pages with Flash objects and I didn't notice similar problem before.

So it's pretty likely that it's not eZ publish problem but some strange mixture of Firefox + eZ publish + Apache.

I'm using default Flash class which renders itself like this:

Maybe you had similar experiences or some hints where to look at?

Michal

Michal Slocinski

Monday 31 December 2007 6:24:47 am

for curious - problem solved itself by restarting the browser :-) I wonder why I didn't get this idea earlier

but - what it means is that currently browsers are more like operating systems and you need to reboot every some time :-]

Piotrek Karaś

Monday 31 December 2007 6:35:30 am

I'd expect a browser to be consistent in its behavior, and so HTTP server. As long as I understand your problem, I would check if the browser's cache isn't trying to serve a file that it had not fully downloaded, but that's just a guess. That's why clearing the cache or restarting the browser might have helped.

But as you say, doesn't seem to be eZ related...

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Company: mediaSELF Sp. z o.o., http://www.mediaself.pl
eZ references: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners/mediaself
eZ certified developer: http://ez.no/certification/verify/272585
eZ blog: http://ez.ryba.eu