[Flashr] Changes on flickr - update your applications

[Kelvin Luck]

Hi all,

Flickr have just announced a change in how the Flickr API is accessed:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-flickr/message/2034

Basically the place where API calls connect to has changed. This has a 
big impact on all flash applications connecting to flickr because the 
removal of the crossdomain.xml file from flickr.com will stop all 
existing applications from working!

I've patched Flashr to avoid this problem:
https://mirror1.cvsdude.com/trac/osflash/flashr/changeset/54

As you can see, the changes are very simple, but unfortunately you will 
either need to download the latest version of Flashr from subversion or 
make the changes you see in the page linked above and re-export your 
applications for them to continue working. As you can see, I made the 
changes both to the 0.4 version and 0.5 version of Flashr - you'll only 
have to update one file, the one corresponding to the version of Flashr 
you are using.

I've contacted Flickr asking them to rethink this change which will 
break every flash application that connects to flickr but I'm not 
holding my breath on a change of heart from their side.

On a brighter note, this will hopefully speed up the official release of 
0.5 - it is basically ready to go but I've been waiting until I had a 
little site ready for it - I'll try and get that done ASAP!

Cheers,

Kelvin :)