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

[Paul Robinson]

Actually I've just noticed, I probably should have checked earlier, but I do
get the flash uploader on the add new media screen. It's only in the
Thickbox window, when you attach media to a post, that I have no uploader
on. I don't know if that makes it easier. Oh and I have reuploaded all of
WP's files twice just in case there was a problem when I downloaded them.

2008/11/1 Paul Robinson <pablorobinson at gmail.com>

> 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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