[wp-testers] Flash uploader broken in latest beta 1

[Paul Robinson]

Hmmm. If all is upgraded to get around the issue, then I don't understand
why I'm having problems with FF... I'm now convinced it isn't WP or
SWFUploader since Chrome seems to work great with it... I'll uninstall flash
& and try putting 10 back in and see what happens.

Thanks for all your help. I'll let you know what happens.

2008/11/1 Austin Matzko <if.website at gmail.com>

> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > True enough although I can't pinpoint the wp-testers message that states
> it.
> > But for what it's worth, the makers of the Flash based uploader are
> supposed
> > to come out with a new version of the SWF Uploader before 2.7 is
> released.
> > The current version is supposedly not compatible.
>
> The problem is that Flash 10 had security changes that invalidated the
> way WordPress used to employ the Flash uploader.  It used to be that
> you would click the upload button, and then a script would call Flash
> to work in the background to open up the file browser so that you
> could select multiple files, etc.  You can't do that in Flash 10[1],
> because it no longer lets a separate script initiate browsing and
> uploading functions.  (The reason is that malicious sites could use
> such scripts to trick users into doing things they didn't want to do.)
>
> So the Flash uploader that WordPress uses, SWFUpload, has been updated
> to address this issue in the (currently beta) 2.2.0 release, and
> WordPress 2.7 (also in beta) is using SWFUpload 2.2.0.
>
> [1]
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_02.html#head3
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